Ecclesiastes 3:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

All go to one place, all are of the dust, and all will be turned to dust again.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 3:19 : 19 With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.
  • Job 34:15 : 15 All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.
  • Ps 104:29 : 29 If your face is veiled, they are troubled; when you take away their breath, they come to an end, and go back to the dust.
  • Eccl 6:6 : 6 And though he goes on living a thousand years twice over and does not see good, are not the two going to the same place?
  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.
  • Job 7:9 : 9 A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again.
  • Job 10:9-9 : 9 O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust? 10 Was I not drained out like milk, becoming hard like cheese?
  • Job 17:13 : 13 If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;
  • Job 30:24 : 24 Has not my hand been stretched out in help to the poor? have I not been a saviour to him in his trouble?
  • Gen 25:8 : 8 And Abraham came to his death, an old man, full of years; and he was put to rest with his people.
  • Gen 25:17 : 17 And the years of Ishmael's life were a hundred and thirty-seven: and he came to his end, and was put to rest with his people.
  • Num 27:13 : 13 And when you have seen it, you will be put to rest with your people, as your brother Aaron was:
  • Dan 12:2 : 2 And a number of those who are sleeping in the dust of the earth will come out of their sleep, some to eternal life and some to eternal shame.
  • Eccl 3:21 : 21 Who is certain that the spirit of the sons of men goes up to heaven, or that the spirit of the beasts goes down to the earth?
  • Ps 49:14 : 14 Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 3:18-19
    2 verses
    87%

    18 I said in my heart, It is because of the sons of men, so that God may put them to the test and that they may see themselves as beasts.

    19 Because the fate of the sons of men and the fate of the beasts is the same. As is the death of one so is the death of the other, and all have one spirit. Man is not higher than the beasts; because all is to no purpose.

  • Job 34:15
    85%

    15 All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.

  • Eccl 12:7-8
    2 verses
    83%

    7 And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.

    8 All things are to no purpose, says the Preacher, all is to no purpose.

  • Eccl 3:21-22
    2 verses
    82%

    21 Who is certain that the spirit of the sons of men goes up to heaven, or that the spirit of the beasts goes down to the earth?

    22 So I saw that there is nothing better than for a man to have joy in his work--because that is his reward. Who will make him see what will come after him?

  • Eccl 9:2-3
    2 verses
    77%

    2 Because to all there is one event, to the upright man and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him who makes an offering and to him who makes no offering; as is the good so is the sinner; he who takes an oath is as he who has fear of it.

    3 This is evil in all things which are done under the sun: that there is one fate for all, and the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil; while they have life their hearts are foolish, and after that--to the dead.

  • Ps 146:4
    76%

    4 Man's breath goes out, he is turned back again to dust; in that day all his purposes come to an end.

  • Eccl 1:2-5
    4 verses
    75%

    2 All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose.

    3 What is a man profited by all his work which he does under the sun?

    4 One generation goes and another comes; but the earth is for ever.

    5 The sun comes up and the sun goes down, and goes quickly back to the place where he came up.

  • Job 21:26
    75%

    26 Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.

  • Job 14:10
    75%

    10 But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?

  • Eccl 5:15-16
    2 verses
    75%

    15 And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind?

    16 All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.

  • Gen 3:19
    74%

    19 With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.

  • Eccl 6:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6 And though he goes on living a thousand years twice over and does not see good, are not the two going to the same place?

    7 All the work of man is for his mouth, and still he has a desire for food.

  • Eccl 4:16
    74%

    16 There was no end of all the people, of all those whose head he was, but they who come later will have no delight in him. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.

  • Ps 104:29
    74%

    29 If your face is veiled, they are troubled; when you take away their breath, they come to an end, and go back to the dust.

  • Eccl 6:11-12
    2 verses
    74%

    11 There are words without number for increasing what is to no purpose, but what is man profited by them?

    12 Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?

  • Ps 103:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15 As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.

    16 The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.

  • 1 Pet 1:24
    73%

    24 For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead:

  • Eccl 3:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1 For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun.

    2 A time for birth and a time for death; a time for planting and a time for uprooting;

  • Ps 144:4
    73%

    4 Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.

  • Ps 90:3
    73%

    3 You send man back to his dust; and say, Go back, you children of men.

  • Eccl 1:14
    73%

    14 I have seen all the works which are done under the sun; all is to no purpose, and desire for wind.

  • Eccl 8:10
    72%

    10 And then I saw evil men put to rest, taken even from the holy place; and they went about and were praised in the town because of what they had done. This again is to no purpose.

  • Eccl 2:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16 Of the wise man, as of the foolish man, there is no memory for ever, seeing that those who now are will have gone from memory in the days to come. See how death comes to the wise as to the foolish!

    17 So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind.

  • Eccl 2:19-20
    2 verses
    72%

    19 And who is to say if that man will be wise or foolish? But he will have power over all my work which I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This again is to no purpose.

    20 So my mind was turned to grief for all the trouble I had taken and all my wisdom under the sun.

  • Eccl 2:11
    72%

    11 Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

  • Job 7:9
    72%

    9 A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again.

  • Eccl 11:8
    71%

    8 But even if a man's life is long and he has joy in all his years, let him keep in mind the dark days, because they will be great in number. Whatever may come is to no purpose.

  • Eccl 7:2
    71%

    2 It is better to go to the house of weeping, than to go to the house of feasting; because that is the end of every man, and the living will take it to their hearts.

  • Eccl 3:15
    71%

    15 Whatever is has been before, and what is to be is now; because God makes search for the things which are past.

  • Eccl 1:9
    71%

    9 That which has been, is that which is to be, and that which has been done, is that which will be done, and there is no new thing under the sun.

  • Ps 49:12
    71%

    12 But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

  • Eccl 9:5
    71%

    5 The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them.

  • Eccl 9:10
    71%

    10 Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.

  • Job 14:2
    71%

    2 He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.

  • Eccl 2:23
    71%

    23 All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is to no purpose.

  • Eccl 4:7
    71%

    7 Then I came back, and I saw an example of what is to no purpose under the sun.