18. I also thought, Where human beings are concerned, God tests them to show them that they are but animals
19. because human beings and animals share the same fate. One dies just like the other—both have the same life-breath. Humans are no better off than animals because everything is pointless.
20. All go to the same place:all are from the dust;all return to the dust.
21. Who knows if a human being’s life-breath rises upward while an animal’s life-breath descends into the earth?