Ecclesiastes 3:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ All go to one place, all are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ All go to one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Common English Bible

²⁰ All go to the same place: all are from the dust; all return to the dust.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ And all things continue on to one place; for from the earth they were made, and unto the earth they shall return together.

Ecclesiastes 3:20 Cross References

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.”

Job 34:15

all flesh would perish together, and all mortals return to dust.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

Ecclesiastes 6:6

Even though he should live a thousand years twice over yet enjoy no good—do not all go to one place?

Ecclesiastes 3:21

Who knows whether the human spirit goes upward and the spirit of animals goes downward to the earth?

Psalm 104:29

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

Job 7:9

As the cloud fades and vanishes, so those who go down to Sheol do not come up;

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 49:14

Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd; straight to the grave they descend, and their form shall waste away; Sheol shall be their home.

Job 17:13

If I look for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in darkness,

Numbers 27:13

When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron was,

Genesis 25:17

(This is the length of the life of Ishmael, one hundred thirty-seven years; he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people.)

Genesis 25:8

Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, old and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

Job 30:24

“Surely one does not turn against the needy, when in disaster they cry for help.

Psalm 103:14

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

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of everyone, and the living will lay it to heart.

Job 14:10

But mortals die and are laid low; humans expire, and where are they?

Job 14:14

If mortals die, will they live again? All the days of my service I would wait until my release should come.