Verse 19

For an event `is to' the sons of man, and an event `is to' the beasts, even one event `is' to them; as the death of this, so `is' the death of that; and one spirit `is' to all, and the advantage of man above the beast is nothing, for the whole `is' vanity.

Referenced Verses

• Ps 49:12 : 12 And man in honour doth not remain, He hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off.
• Ps 49:20 : 20 Man in honour, who understandest not, Hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off!
• Ps 89:47-48 : 47 Remember, I pray Thee, what `is' life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men? 48 Who `is' the man that liveth, and doth not see death? He delivereth his soul from the hand of Sheol. Selah.
• Ps 92:6-7 : 6 A brutish man doth not know, And a fool understandeth not this; -- 7 When the wicked flourish as a herb, And blossom do all workers of iniquity -- For their being destroyed for ever and ever!
• Ps 104:29 : 29 Thou hidest Thy face -- they are troubled, Thou gatherest their spirit -- they expire, And unto their dust they turn back.
• Eccl 2:14 : 14 The wise! -- his eyes `are' in his head, and the fool in darkness is walking, and I also knew that one event happeneth with them all;
• Eccl 2:16 : 16 That there is no remembrance to the wise -- with the fool -- to the age, for that which `is' already, `in' the days that are coming is all forgotten, and how dieth the wise? with the fool!
• Eccl 2:20-23 : 20 And I turned round to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour that I laboured at under the sun. 21 For there is a man whose labour `is' in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity, and to a man who hath not laboured therein he giveth it -- his portion! Even this `is' vanity and a great evil. 22 For what hath been to a man by all his labour, and by the thought of his heart that he laboured at under the sun? 23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail sadness; even at night his heart hath not lain down; this also `is' vanity.
• 2 Sam 14:14 : 14 for we do surely die, and `are' as water which is running down to the earth, which is not gathered, and God doth not accept a person, and hath devised devices in that the outcast is not outcast by Him.
• Job 14:10-12 : 10 And a man dieth, and becometh weak, And man expireth, and where `is' he? 11 Waters have gone away from a sea, And a river becometh waste and dry. 12 And man hath lain down, and riseth not, Till the wearing out of the heavens they awake not, Nor are roused from their sleep.
• Ps 39:5-6 : 5 Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age `is' as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity `is' every man set up. Selah. 6 Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, `in' vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.