17. I said to myself, “In due season God will judge everyone, both good and bad, for all their deeds.”
18. I also thought about the human condition—how God proves to people that they are like animals.
19. For people and animals share the same fate—both breathe and both must die. So people have no real advantage over the animals. How meaningless!
20. Both go to the same place—they came from dust and they return to dust.