Ecclesiastes 3:21

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

Points To Note:

1 Solomon isn't an agnostic, for he knew what happened when people died (Ecclesiastes 12:7), and this book isn't written by. skeptic and neither is it the efforts of. man with. doubt-ridden soul (Ecclesiastes 12:13-14). 2. Verse 21 can be taken as. regretful question, "How many people really know this fact, that the breath of man goes upward and the breath of the beast goes downward, when they die?" 3. While the godly know the answer to the above question, far too many sinners don't. And the line between man and animal seems to be getting even more blurred in our time. 4. Solomon also might be saying: "In observing the behavior of some people (the wicked), one might be tempted to think that the animals had the nobler spirit."