Ecclesiastes 12:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ Then shall the dust [out of which God made man's body] return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God Who gave it.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.

Common English Bible

⁷ before dust returns to the earth as it was before and the life-breath returns to God who gave it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ and the dust returns to its earth, from which it was, and the spirit returns to God, who granted it.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 Cross References

Daniel 12:2

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Psalm 146:4

When their breath departs, they return to the earth; on that very day their plans perish.

Zechariah 12:1

An Oracle. The word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus says the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the human spirit within:

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

Genesis 2:7

then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

Isaiah 57:16

For I will not continually accuse, nor will I always be angry, for then the spirits would grow faint before me, even the souls that I have made.

Numbers 16:22

They fell on their faces and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one person sin and you become angry with the whole congregation?”

Psalm 90:3

You turn us back to dust and say, “Turn back, you mortals.”

Job 20:11

Their bodies, once full of youth, will lie down in the dust with them.

Numbers 27:16

“Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint someone over the congregation

Hebrews 12:23

and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,

Hebrews 12:9

Moreover, we had human parents to discipline us, and we respected them. Should we not be even more willing to be subject to the Father of spirits and live?

Jeremiah 38:16

So King Zedekiah swore an oath in secret to Jeremiah, “As the Lord lives, who gave us our lives, I will not put you to death or hand you over to these men who seek your life.”

Genesis 18:27

Abraham answered, “Let me take it upon myself to speak to my lord, I who am but dust and ashes.

Job 7:21

Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; you will seek me, but I shall not be.”

Luke 23:46

Then Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.” Having said this, he breathed his last.

Acts 7:59

While they were stoning Stephen, he prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

Psalm 103:14

For he knows how we were made; he remembers that we are dust.

Psalm 104:29

When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

Psalm 31:6

You hate those who pay regard to worthless idols, but I trust in the Lord.