Ecclesiastes 3:19 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 3:19

19: For humans and animals both breathe the same air, and both die. So people have no real advantage over the animals. How meaningless!

Psalms 49:12

  1. They will not last long despite their riches--they will die like the animals.

Psalms 49:20

  1. People who boast of their wealth don't understand that they will die like the animals.

Ecclesiastes 2:20

  1. So I turned in despair from hard work. It was not the answer to my search for satisfaction in this life.
  2. For though I do my work with wisdom, knowledge, and skill, I must leave everything I gain to people who haven't worked to earn it. This is not only foolish but highly unfair.
  3. So what do people get for all their hard work?
  4. Their days of labor are filled with pain and grief; even at night they cannot rest. It is all utterly meaningless.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

  1. For the wise person sees, while the fool is blind. Yet I saw that wise and foolish people share the same fate.

2 Samuel 14:14

  1. All of us must die eventually. Our lives are like water spilled out on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. That is why God tries to bring us back when we have been separated from him. He does not sweep away the lives of those he cares about--and neither should you!

Ecclesiastes 2:16

  1. For the wise person and the fool both die, and in the days to come, both will be forgotten.

Psalms 92:6

  1. Only an ignorant person would not know this! Only a fool would not understand it.
  2. Although the wicked flourish like weeds, and evildoers blossom with success, there is only eternal destruction ahead of them.

Psalms 104:29

  1. But if you turn away from them, they panic. When you take away their breath, they die and turn again to dust.

Psalms 89:47

  1. Remember how short my life is, how empty and futile this human existence!
  2. No one can live forever; all will die. No one can escape the power of the grave.

Psalms 39:5

  1. My life is no longer than the width of my hand. An entire lifetime is just a moment to you; human existence is but a breath."
  2. We are merely moving shadows, and all our busy rushing ends in nothing. We heap up wealth for someone else to spend.

Job 14:10

  1. "But when people die, they lose all strength. They breathe their last, and then where are they?
  2. As water evaporates from a lake and as a river disappears in drought,
  3. people lie down and do not rise again. Until the heavens are no more, they will not wake up nor be roused from their sleep.
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