Cross references
Ecclesiastes 3:19
For the fates of both men and beasts are the same: As one dies, so dies the other—they all have the same breath. Man has no advantage over the animals, since everything is futile.
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Ecclesiastes 3:19 has 11 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Psalm 49:12 (8 votes) and Psalm 49:20 (5 votes). 11 other verses point back to it. It links with 5 other books, from Numbers 16 to 1 Corinthians 15.
Which verses does Ecclesiastes 3:19 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Psalm 49:128 votes
But a man, despite his wealth, cannot endure; he is like the beasts that perish.
- Psalm 49:205 votes
A man who has riches without understanding is like the beasts that perish.
- Job 14:10–124 votes
But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he? As water disappears from the sea and a river becomes parched and dry, …
- Psalm 39:5–63 votes
You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.
- Psalm 89:47–483 votes
Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men! What man can live and never see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah
- Ecclesiastes 2:143 votes
The wise man has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also came to realize that one fate overcomes them both.
- Ecclesiastes 2:20–233 votes
So my heart began to despair over all the labor that I had done under the sun. When there is a man who has labored with wisdom, knowledge, and skill, and he must give his portion to a man who has not worked for it, this too is futile and a great evil. …
- 2 Samuel 14:142 votes
For we will surely die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life, but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.
- Psalm 92:6–72 votes
A senseless man does not know, and a fool does not understand, that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.
- Psalm 104:292 votes
When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.
- Ecclesiastes 2:162 votes
Which verses point to Ecclesiastes 3:19?
The 10 strongest of 11.