Ecclesiastes 3:20

New International Version

All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.

Cross References

Genesis 25:17

Ishmael lived a 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 brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”

Job 14:10

But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last and is no more.

Job 14:14

If someone dies, will they live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come.

Job 17:13

If the only home I hope for is the grave, if I spread out my bed in the realm of darkness,

Job 30:24

“Surely no one lays a hand on a broken man when he cries for help in his distress.

Job 34:15

all humanity would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.

Job 7:9

As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so one who goes down to the grave does not return.

Psalm 103:14

for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust.

Psalm 104:29

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

Psalm 49:14

They are like sheep and are destined to die; death will be their shepherd (but the upright will prevail over them in the morning). Their forms will decay in the grave, far from their princely mansions.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 3:21

Who knows if the human spirit rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?”

Ecclesiastes 6:6

even if he lives a thousand years twice over but fails to enjoy his prosperity. Do not all go to the same place?

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for death is the destiny of everyone; the living should take this to heart.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.

Daniel 12:2

Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.

Numbers 27:13

After you have seen it, you too will be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron was,