In Context

15 What is that which hath been? already it is, and that which is to be hath already been, and God requireth that which is pursued.

16 And again, I have seen under the sun the place of judgment — there is the wicked; and the place of righteousness — there is the wicked.

17 I said in my heart, 'The righteous and the wicked doth God judge, for a time is to every matter and for every work there.'

18 I said in my heart concerning the matter of the sons of man that God might cleanse them, so as to see that they themselves are beasts.

19 For an event is to the sons of man, and an event is to the beasts, even one event is to them; as the death of this, so is the death of that; and one spirit is to all, and the advantage of man above the beast is nothing, for the whole is vanity.

20 The whole are going unto one place, the whole have been from the dust, and the whole are turning back unto the dust.

Ecclesiastes 3:18 in Other Translations