All the rivers go down to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the rivers go, there they go again.

The wind goes to the south and goes around to the north; around and around it goes, and on its circuit the wind returns.

Who knoweth the spirit of the children of men? Doth it go upwards? and the spirit of the beasts, doth it go downwards to the earth?

It is better to go to a house of mourning
Than to go to a house of feasting,
Because that is the end of every man,
And the living takes it to heart.

And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.

Furthermore, men are afraid of a high place and of terrors on the road; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags himself along, and the caperberry is ineffective. For man goes to his eternal home while mourners go about in the street.

The sun comes up and the sun goes down, and goes quickly back to the place where he came up.

And though he goes on living a thousand years twice over and does not see good, are not the two going to the same place?