Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth? Ecclesiastes 3:21
Trivia: According to Ecclesiastes, what is better than a dead lion?
(In the Bible it is always the women who are barren, never the men.)
But Sarai was barren; she had no child. Genesis 11:30, 16:1-2
Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren. Genesis 25:21
Rachel was barren. Genesis 29:31
There was a certain man ... whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren. Judges 13:2
Elkannah ...had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah.... The Lord had shut up her womb. 1 Samuel 1:1-5
They had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren. Luke 1:7
