Ecclesiastes 3:20

Tree of Life Version

Both go to one place. Both were taken from the dust, and both return to the dust.

Cross References

Genesis 25:17

These are the years of Ishmael’s life: 137 years. He breathed his last, died and was gathered to his peoples.

Genesis 25:8

So Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, old and satisfied. Then he was gathered to his peoples.

Genesis 3:19

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

Job 14:10

But man dies and is powerless. Man expires—and where is he?

Job 14:14

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

Job 17:13

If I hope for Sheol as my home, if I make my bed in darkness,

Job 30:24

Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out His hand, and in his distress cry for help?

Job 34:15

all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to dust.

Job 7:9

As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so one descending into Sheol does not come up;

Psalm 103:14

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

Psalm 104:29

But when You hide Your face— they are dismayed. You take away their breath— they perish, and return to their dust.

Psalm 49:14

Such is the way of the self-confident, and their followers who approve their sayings. Selah

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

Ecclesiastes 3:21

Who knows that the spirit of the sons of man ascends upward and the animal’s spirit descends into the earth?

Ecclesiastes 6:6

Even if the other man were to live a thousand years twice and never enjoy good things—do not all go to the same place?

Ecclesiastes 7:2

Better to go to a house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, since that is the end of all mankind —and the living should take it to heart.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do with all your strength, for there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, where you are going.

Daniel 12:2

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

Numbers 27:13

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