3:21a Who knows

But no one really knows ⌊what happens after death⌋ .
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Only God knows
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Who knows what happens to a person’s spirit? (English Easy-to-Read Version)

3:21b if the spirit of man rises upward and the spirit of the animal descends into the earth?

Maybe a person’s spirit will go up ⌊to God after they die⌋ . And maybe the animal will just fall to the ground ⌊when it dies⌋ .
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⌊whether⌋ the human spirit goes up ⌊to God⌋ , and the spirit of animals goes down into the earth.

3:21a-b (combined)

Nobody knows for sure if the human spirit rises to heaven or if the animal spirit sinks into the earth.
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Do the spirits of humans go up into the sky when we die? Do the spirits of animals go down into the ground? Nobody really knows. (EEB)

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