Pengkhotbah 12:7

12:7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was,

and the life’s breath ¹  returns to God who gave it.

Pengkhotbah 3:21

3:21 Who really knows if the human spirit ²  ascends upward,

and the animal’s spirit descends into the earth?

[12:7]  ¹ tn Or “spirit.” The likely referent is the life’s breath that originates with God. See Eccl 3:19, as well as Gen 2:7; 6:17; 7:22.

[3:21]  ² tn Heb “the spirit of the sons of man.”