誰知道人的靈是往上升，獸的魂是下入地呢？

谁知道人的灵是往上升，兽的魂是下入地呢？

谁知道人的气息是往上升，走兽的气息是下入地呢？

谁知道人的气息是往上升，走兽的气息是下入地呢？

谁知道人的气息会向上升，兽的气息会降到地下呢？”

有谁知道人的灵是往上升，牲畜的魂（“魂”的原文与“灵”〔3:21〕和“气息”〔3:19〕相同）是下降而入地呢？”

谁知道人的灵是否往上升，兽的灵是否往下降入地里呢？

誰知道人的氣息是往上升，走獸的氣息是下入地呢？

誰知道人的氣息是往上升，走獸的氣息是下入地呢？

誰知道人的氣息會向上升，獸的氣息會降到地下呢？」

有誰知道人的靈是往上升，牲畜的魂（“魂”的原文與“靈”〔3:21〕和“氣息”〔3:19〕相同）是下降而入地呢？”

誰能知道人類的靈是往上升、獸類的魂是往下降而入於地呢？

誰知道人的靈是否往上升，獸的靈是否往下降入地裡呢？

人之神或升於上、獸之魂或降於地、其誰知之、

人之神、升於天、獸之精、降乎地、誰念及之、

孰知人之靈必升於上、獸之魂必降於下、

Who knows if the human spirit rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?”

Who can know whether the spirit of a person goes up? Who can tell whether the spirit of an animal goes down into the earth?”

Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down into the earth?

For who can prove that the human spirit goes up and the spirit of animals goes down into the earth?

Who knows if the spirits of the children of Adam go upward and the spirits of animals go downward to the earth?

Who knows that the spirit of the sons of mankind ascends upward and the spirit of the animal descends downward to the earth?

Who knows the spirit of the sons of men, which goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, which goes down to the earth?

Who knoweth the spirit of man, whether it goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast, whether it goeth downward to the earth?

Who knows if the spirit of people rises upward and the spirit of animals goes downward to the earth?

Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?

Who really knows if the human spirit ascends upward, and the animal’s spirit descends into the earth?

Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?”

塵土仍歸於地，靈仍歸於賜靈的神。

我們坦然無懼，是更願意離開身體與主同住。

後來那討飯的死了，被天使帶去放在亞伯拉罕的懷裏。財主也死了，並且埋葬了。他在陰間受痛苦，舉目遠遠地望見亞伯拉罕，又望見拉撒路在他懷裏，

我若去為你們預備了地方，就必再來接你們到我那裏去，我在哪裏，叫你們也在那裏。

我正在兩難之間，情願離世與基督同在，因為這是好得無比的。

我們原知道，我們這地上的帳棚若拆毀了，必得神所造，不是人手所造，在天上永存的房屋。