These are the years of Ishmael’s life: 137 years. He breathed his last, died and was gathered to his peoples.
Ecclesiastes 3:20 - Tree of Life Version Both go to one place. Both were taken from the dust, and both return to the dust. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition All go to one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. American Standard Version (1901) All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Common English Bible All go to the same place: all are from the dust; all return to the dust. Catholic Public Domain Version And all things continue on to one place; for from the earth they were made, and unto the earth they shall return together. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And all things go to one place: of earth they were made, and into earth they return together. |
These are the years of Ishmael’s life: 137 years. He breathed his last, died and was gathered to his peoples.
So Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, old and satisfied. Then he was gathered to his peoples.
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.”
If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard labor I will wait until my relief comes.
Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out His hand, and in his distress cry for help?
As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so one descending into Sheol does not come up;
But when You hide Your face— they are dismayed. You take away their breath— they perish, and return to their dust.
Such is the way of the self-confident, and their followers who approve their sayings. Selah
Then the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Who knows that the spirit of the sons of man ascends upward and the animal’s spirit descends into the earth?
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?
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.
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.
Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake—some to everlasting life, and others to shame and everlasting contempt.
When you have seen it, you will be gathered to your people, just as Aaron your brother was gathered.