Bible Verses About Animals: Nature of

Concerning people, I said to myself, "God is testing them, so that they will see that by themselves they are just animals.

After all, the same things that happen to people happen to animals, the very same thing - just as the one dies, so does the other. Yes, their breath is the same; so that humans are no better than animals; since nothing matters, anyway.

They all go to the same place; they all come from dust, and they all return to dust.

Who knows if the spirit of a human being goes upward and the spirit of an animal goes downward into the earth?"