The writer goes on to say that there is no discernible difference between where the spirit of men and animals goes (Ecc. 3:21). This description of men and animals having the same spirit and dying the same death, appears to allude back to the description of how both men and animals, who both had the spirit of life from God (Gen. 2:7; 7:15), were destroyed with the same death at the flood: "All flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: all in whose nostrils was the breath (spirit) of life...died...every living substance was destroyed" (Gen. 7:21-23). Note in passing how Ps. 90:5 likens death to the flood.
Mwandishi anaendelea kusema kwamba hakuna tofauti ya kuona kati ya roho za watu na wanyama zinakwenda wapi (Mhubiri 3: 21). Maelezo haya ya watu na wanyama kuwa na roho moja na kufa kifo kimoja, yanaelekea kurudi kutaja maelezo jinsi wote wanadamu na wanyama, waliokuwa na roho ya uhai toka kwa Mungu (Mwa. 2:7;7:15), waliharibiwa na kifo kile kile wakati wa gharika: "wakafa wote wenye mwili waendao juu ya nchi, na ndege, na wanyama wa kufugwa, na kila mnyama wa mwitu, na kila kitambaacho chenye kutambaa juu ya nchi, na kila mwandamu; kila kitu chenye pumzi ya uhai puani mwake kikafa ……kila kilicho hai kikafutiliwa mbali" (Mwa. 7:21 -23).Ona kwa kupita jinsi Zaburi ya 90:5 inavyolinganishwa mauti na gharika.