Ecclesiastes 3:20

God's Word

All ⌞life⌟ goes to the same place. All ⌞life⌟ comes from the ground, and all of it goes back to the ground.

Cross References

Genesis 25:17

Ishmael lived 137 years. Then he took his last breath and died. He joined his ancestors in death.

Genesis 25:8

Then he took his last breath, and died at a very old age. After a long and full life, he joined his ancestors in death.

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow, you will produce food to eat until you return to the ground, because you were taken from it. You are dust, and you will return to dust.”

Job 14:10

But a human dies and is powerless. A person breathes his last breath, and where is he?

Job 14:14

“If a person dies, will he go on living? I will wait for my relief to come as long as my hard labor continues.

Job 17:13

If I look for the grave as my home and make my bed in the darkness,

Job 30:24

“But God doesn’t stretch out his hand against one who is ruined when that person calls for help in his disaster.

Job 34:15

all living beings would die together, and humanity would return to dust.

Job 7:9

As a cloud fades away and disappears, so a person goes into the grave and doesn’t come back again.

Psalm 103:14

He certainly knows what we are made of. He bears in mind that we are dust.

Psalm 104:29

You hide your face, and they are terrified. You take away their breath, and they die and return to dust.

Psalm 49:14

Like sheep, they are driven to hell with death as their shepherd. (Decent people will rule them in the morning.) Their forms will decay in the grave, far away from their comfortable homes.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

Then the dust ⌞of mortals⌟ goes back to the ground as it was before, and the breath of life goes back to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 3:21

Who knows whether a human spirit goes upward or whether an animal spirit goes downward to the earth?

Ecclesiastes 6:6

Even if the rich person lives two thousand years without experiencing anything good—don’t we all go to the same place?

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to a funeral than to a banquet because that is where everyone will end up. Everyone who is alive should take this to heart!

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever presents itself for you to do, do it with ⌞all⌟ your might, because there is no work, planning, knowledge, or skill in the grave where you’re going.

Daniel 12:2

Many sleeping in the ground will wake up. Some will wake up to live forever, but others will wake up to be ashamed and disgraced forever.

Numbers 27:13

After you see it, you, too, will join your ancestors ⌞in death⌟, as your brother Aaron did.