Verse 20

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 3:19 : 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread until you return to the ground, because from it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you will return.
  • Job 34:15 : 15 all flesh would perish together, and mankind would return to dust.
  • Ps 104:29 : 29 When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to the dust.
  • Eccl 6:6 : 6 Even if someone lives a thousand years twice over but does not enjoy their prosperity, do not all go to the same place?
  • Eccl 9:10 : 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 no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 And the dust returns to the earth as it once was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
  • Job 7:9 : 9 As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so one who goes down to the grave does not return.
  • Job 10:9-9 : 9 Remember, You fashioned me from clay; will You now return me to dust? 10 Did You not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?
  • Job 17:13 : 13 If I hope for Sheol as my home, and I make my bed in darkness,
  • Job 30:24 : 24 Surely one does not stretch out a hand in ruin or cry for help in disaster.
  • Gen 25:8 : 8 Abraham breathed his last and died at a ripe old age, an old man full of years, and he was gathered to his people.
  • Gen 25:17 : 17 These are the years of Ishmael's life: one hundred thirty-seven years. He breathed his last, died, and was gathered to his people.
  • Num 27:13 : 13 After you have seen it, you too will be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron was.
  • Dan 12:2 : 2 Many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
  • Eccl 3:21 : 21 Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down to the earth?
  • Ps 49:14 : 14 This is their fate, their foolish confidence. And yet, after them, people approve their words. Selah.