Instead, he ends up befriending a young orphan girl named Anne-Marie (voiced by Judith Barsi in her final film role posthumously). Charlie withdraws from his place in Heaven to return to Earth where his best friend, Itchy Itchiford (voiced by Dom DeLuise), still lives, in order to take revenge on Carface. Barkin (voiced by Burt Reynolds), a German Shepherd that is murdered by his former friend, Carface Carruthers (voiced by Vic Tayback, in his penultimate film role). 22 but see also 2:10– 11).All Dogs Go to Heaven is a 1989 animated musical fantasy adventure comedy-drama film directed by Don Bluth and co-directed by Gary Goldman (his directorial debut) and Dan Kuenster. * Who knows: the author presumes a negative answer: “No one knows.” In place of speculation on impossible questions, the author counsels enjoyment of what is possible (cf. * A time is set…work: another possible reading would see this verse referring to a judgment in or after death: “a time for every affair and for every work there” (that is, in death or in Sheol). Literally it reads “and God seeks out what was pursued.” It appears to be a variation of the theme in 1:9, “There is nothing new under the sun.” * The timeless: others translate “eternity,” “the world,” or “darkness.” The author credits God with keeping human beings ignorant about God’s “work”-present and future. Human beings cannot know that moment further, the wider course of events and purposes fixed by God are beyond them as well. The poem affirms that God has determined the appropriate moment or “time” for each. * The fourteen pairs of opposites describe various human activities. Who will let them see what is to come after them? i
Human beings have no advantage over beasts, but all is vanity.Ģ0 g Both go to the same place both were made from the dust, and to the dust they both return.Ģ1Who knows * if the life breath of mortals goes upward and the life breath of beasts goes earthward?Ģ2 h And I saw that there is nothing better for mortals than to rejoice in their work for this is their lot. * 18I said in my heart: As for human beings, it is God’s way of testing them and of showing that they are in themselves like beasts.ġ9For the lot of mortals and the lot of beasts is the same lot: The one dies as well as the other.
16 e And still under the sun in the judgment place I saw wickedness, and wickedness also in the seat of justice.ġ7 f I said in my heart, both the just and the wicked God will judge, since a time is set for every affair and for every work. Thus has God done that he may be revered.ġ5 * d What now is has already been what is to be, already is: God retrieves what has gone by. CHAPTER 3 No One Can Determine the Right Time to Actġ * There is an appointed time for everything,Īnd a time for every affair under the heavens.ĢA time to give birth, and a time to die Ī time to plant, and a time to uproot the plant.Ī time to tear down, and a time to build.ĥA time to scatter stones, and a time to gather them Ī time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces.Ī time to be silent, and a time to speak.ĩ a What profit have workers from their toil?ġ0I have seen the business that God has given to mortals to be busied about.ġ1 b God has made everything appropriate to its time, but has put the timeless * into their hearts so they cannot find out, from beginning to end, the work which God has done.ġ2 c I recognized that there is nothing better than to rejoice and to do well during life.ġ3Moreover, that all can eat and drink and enjoy the good of all their toil-this is a gift of God.ġ4I recognized that whatever God does will endure forever there is no adding to it, or taking from it.
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