Ecclesiastes 3:20
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.”
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“All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.”
King James Version · Public Domain“All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“The whole are going unto one place, the whole have been from the dust, and the whole are turning back unto the dust.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ecclesiastes 3:20 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground— because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
- Genesis 25:8And at a ripe old age he breathed his last and died, old and contented, and was gathered to his people.
- Genesis 25:17Ishmael lived a total of 137 years. Then he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.
- Numbers 27:13After you have seen it, you too will be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron was;
- Job 7:9As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.
- Job 10:9Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
- Job 14:10But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?
- Job 14:14When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.
- Job 17:13If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
- Job 30:24Yet no one stretches out his hand to a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress.
- Job 34:15all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.
- Psalms 49:14Like sheep they are destined for Sheol. Death will be their shepherd. The upright will rule them in the morning, and their form will decay in Sheol, far from their lofty abode.
- Psalms 104:29When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.
- Ecclesiastes 3:21Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and the spirit of the animal descends into the earth?
- Ecclesiastes 6:6even if he lives a thousand years twice over but fails to enjoy his prosperity. Do not all go to the same place?
- Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
- Ecclesiastes 12:7before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
- Daniel 12:2And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
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