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Ecclesiastes 3:21

21 sWho 7knows the spirit of the sons of men, which goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, which goes down to the earth?

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Ecclesiastes 3:21 — The New International Version (NIV)

21 Who knows if the human spirit rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?”

Ecclesiastes 3:21 — English Standard Version (ESV)

21 Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down into the earth?

Ecclesiastes 3:21 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?

Ecclesiastes 3:21 — New Living Translation (NLT)

21 For who can prove that the human spirit goes up and the spirit of animals goes down into the earth?

Ecclesiastes 3:21 — New Century Version (NCV)

21 Who can be sure that the human spirit goes up to God and that the spirit of an animal goes down into the ground?

Ecclesiastes 3:21 — American Standard Version (ASV)

21 Who knoweth the spirit of man, whether it goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast, whether it goeth downward to the earth?

Ecclesiastes 3:21 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

21 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?

Ecclesiastes 3:21 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

21 Who knows whether a human spirit goes upward or whether an animal spirit goes downward to the earth? 

Ecclesiastes 3:21 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

21 Who knows if the spirit of people rises upward and the spirit of animals goes downward to the earth?

Ecclesiastes 3:21 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

21 Who knows whether the human spirit goes upward and the spirit of animals goes downward to the earth?

Ecclesiastes 3:21 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

21 For no one knows whether the spirit of a human ascends to heaven and whether the spirit of the beast descends to the ground!

Ecclesiastes 3:21 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

21 Who can know whether the spirit of a man goes up? Who can tell whether the spirit of an animal goes down into the earth?”

Ecclesiastes 3:21 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

21 Who knows that the breath of man ascends upward and the breath of the beast descends downward to the earth?


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