Ecclesiastes 3:20

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

All living creatures go to the same place. We are made from earth, and we return to the earth.

Cross References

Genesis 25:17

Ishmael had settled in the land east of his brothers, and his sons settled everywhere from Havilah to Shur, east of Egypt on the way to Asshur. Ishmael was one hundred and thirty-seven when he died.

Genesis 3:19

You will have to sweat to earn a living; you were made out of soil, and you will once again turn into soil.”

Job 14:10

Humans are different— we die, and that's the end.

Job 14:14

Will we humans live again? I would gladly suffer and wait for my time.

Job 17:13

I could tell the world below to prepare me a bed.

Job 30:24

No one refuses help to others, when disaster strikes.

Job 34:15

we humans would die and return to the soil.

Job 7:9

I will disappear in the grave or vanish from sight like a passing cloud.

Psalm 103:14

because he knows we are made of dust.

Psalm 104:29

But when you turn away, they are terrified; when you end their life, they die and rot.

Psalm 49:14

They are like sheep with death as their shepherd, leading them to the grave. In the morning God's people will walk all over them, as their bodies lie rotting in their home, the grave.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

So our bodies return to the earth, and the life-giving breath returns to God.

Ecclesiastes 3:21

Who really knows if our spirits go up and the spirits of animals go down into the earth?

Ecclesiastes 6:6

even if you live two thousand years and don't enjoy life. As you know, we all end up in the same place.

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It's better to go to a funeral than to attend a feast; funerals remind us that we all must die.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Work hard at whatever you do. You will soon go to the world of the dead, where no one works or thinks or reasons or knows anything.

Daniel 12:2

Many of those who lie dead in the ground will rise from death. Some of them will be given eternal life, and others will receive nothing but eternal shame and disgrace.

Numbers 27:13

After you have seen it, you will die, just like your brother Aaron,