Ecclesiastes 3:20

Modern English Version

All go to one place; everything came from dust, and returns to dust.

Cross References

Genesis 25:17

These were the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred and thirty-seven years. He breathed his last and died; and he was gathered to his people.

Genesis 25:8

Then Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, an old man and full of years; and he was gathered to his people.

Genesis 3:19

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

Job 14:10

But man dies and wastes away; yes, man gives up his breath, and where is he?

Job 14:14

If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my service I will wait, until my relief comes.

Job 17:13

If I wait, the grave is my house; I have made my bed in the darkness.

Job 30:24

“Surely He will not stretch out His hand to the grave, though they cry when He destroys it.

Job 34:15

all flesh will perish together, and man will turn again to dust.

Job 7:9

As the cloud disappears and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more.

Psalm 103:14

For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust.

Psalm 104:29

You hide Your face; they are troubled; You take away their breath; they die and return to their dust.

Psalm 49:14

Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd; the upright shall rule over them in the morning; their form shall waste away in Sheol, far from their dwelling.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

Ecclesiastes 3:21

Who has experienced the spirit of people ascending above, or the spirit of animals descending below the earth?”

Ecclesiastes 6:6

Though the man may live a thousand years twice over, yet does not enjoy the good things, do not all go to the same place?

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to a house of mourning for a funeral than to go to a house of feasting for a celebration; for this is the destiny of all humanity; and the living should consider this in their heart.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hands find to do, do with your strength; for there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol where you are going.

Daniel 12:2

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake—some to everlasting life, and others to everlasting shame and contempt.

Numbers 27:13

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