American Standard Version of 1901
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{Or, I said in my heart concerning the sons of men, It is God &c.}I said in my heart, It is because of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are but as beasts.
For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one {Or, spirit}breath; and man hath no preeminence above the beasts: for all is vanity.
All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Who knoweth the spirit {Hebrew: of the sons of men.}of man, {Or, that goeth}whether it goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast, {Or, that goeth}whether it goeth downward to the earth?
all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.
So brutish {Or, am}was I, and ignorant;I was as a beast {Hebrew: with thee.}before thee.
He goeth after her {Hebrew: suddenly.}straightway,As an ox goeth to the slaughter,Or as one in {The Hebrew is obsure.}fetters to the correction of the fool;
He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind: and it was so.
And God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the ground after its kind: and God saw that it was good.
and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.
But man being in honor abideth not:He is like the beasts that perish.
Man that is in honor, and understandeth not,Is like the beasts that perish.
Be not thou afraid when one is made rich,When the {Or, wealth}glory of his house is increased: