How can anyone be sure that the human spirit goes upward while an animal's spirit goes down into the ground?

more so than the man who never enjoys life, though he may live two thousand years. After all, both of them are going to the same place.

Work hard at whatever you do, because there will be no action, no thought, no knowledge, no wisdom in the world of the dead---and that is where you are going.

(SEE 25:7)

Ishmael was 137 years old when he died.

After you have seen it, you will die, as your brother Aaron did,

Like a cloud that fades and is gone, we humans die and never return; we are forgotten by all who knew us.

My only hope is the world of the dead, where I will lie down to sleep in the dark.

Why do you attack a ruined man, one who can do nothing but beg for pity?

they are doomed to die like sheep, and Death will be their shepherd. The righteous will triumph over them, as their bodies quickly decay in the world of the dead far from their homes.

You will have to work hard and sweat to make the soil produce anything, until you go back to the soil from which you were formed. You were made from soil, and you will become soil again."

Remember that you made me from clay; are you going to crush me back to dust?

You gave my father strength to beget me; you made me grow in my mother's womb.

then everyone living would die and turn into dust again.

When you turn away, they are afraid; when you take away your breath, they die and go back to the dust from which they came.

Many of those who have already died will live again: some will enjoy eternal life, and some will suffer eternal disgrace.