Ecclesiastes 12:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

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  • Gen 3:19 : 19 In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.
  • Ps 146:4 : 4 His breath departs, he returns to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
  • Gen 2:7 : 7 And the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
  • Dan 12:2 : 2 And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
  • Zech 12:1 : 1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, says the LORD, who stretches forth the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him.
  • Eccl 3:20-21 : 20 All go to one place; all are of dust, and all turn to dust again. 21 Who knows the spirit of man that goes upward, and the spirit of the beast that goes downward to the earth?
  • Isa 57:16 : 16 For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry; for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
  • Job 34:14-15 : 14 If He sets His heart upon man, if He gathers to Himself His spirit and His breath, 15 All flesh shall perish together, and man shall return again to dust.
  • Ps 90:3 : 3 You turn man to destruction; and say, Return, you children of men.
  • Heb 12:9 : 9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we respected them: shall we not much more be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
  • Heb 12:23 : 23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of righteous men made perfect,
  • Jer 38:16 : 16 So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, As the LORD lives, who made us this soul, I will not put you to death, nor will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life.
  • Gen 18:27 : 27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken it upon myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.
  • Num 16:22 : 22 And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will You be angry with all the congregation?
  • Num 27:16 : 16 Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,
  • Job 4:19-20 : 19 How much less in those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth? 20 They are destroyed from morning to evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.
  • Job 7:21 : 21 And why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now shall I sleep in the dust, and you shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
  • Job 20:11 : 11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

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  • Eccl 3:19-22
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    19For that which befalls the sons of men also befalls beasts; one thing befalls them: as one dies, so dies the other; yes, they all have one breath; so that a man has no advantage over a beast: for all is vanity.

    20All go to one place; all are of dust, and all turn to dust again.

    21Who knows the spirit of man that goes upward, and the spirit of the beast that goes downward to the earth?

    22Therefore I perceive that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what shall be after him?

  • Job 34:14-15
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    81%

    14If He sets His heart upon man, if He gathers to Himself His spirit and His breath,

    15All flesh shall perish together, and man shall return again to dust.

  • Eccl 12:5-6
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    5Also when they are afraid of what is high, and fears are in the way, and the almond tree blossoms, and the grasshopper is a burden, and desire fails: because man goes to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.

    6Before the silver cord is loosed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.

  • Eccl 12:8
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    8Vanity of vanities, says the preacher; all is vanity.

  • Ps 146:4
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    4His breath departs, he returns to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

  • Ps 104:29-30
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    29You hide Your face, they are troubled: You take away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

    30You send forth Your Spirit, they are created: and You renew the face of the earth.

  • Job 7:9-10
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    9As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to the grave shall come up no more.

    10He shall return no more to his house, nor shall his place know him anymore.

  • Gen 3:19
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    19In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.

  • Eccl 4:7
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    7Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.

  • Job 14:10-12
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    10But man dies and wastes away; yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

    11As the waters fail from the sea and the flood decays and dries up,

    12So man lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, they shall not awake nor be raised out of their sleep.

  • Ps 90:3
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    3You turn man to destruction; and say, Return, you children of men.

  • Eccl 5:15-16
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    15As he came from his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labor which he may carry away in his hand.

    16And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go; and what profit has he who has labored for the wind?

  • Eccl 1:2-7
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    2Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

    3What profit does a man have from all his labor which he does under the sun?

    4One generation passes away, and another generation comes, but the earth remains forever.

    5The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it arose.

    6The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the north; it whirls around continually, and the wind returns again according to its circuits.

    7All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; to the place from where the rivers come, there they return again.

  • Eccl 12:1-2
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    1Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, while the evil days do not come, nor the years draw near when you will say, I have no pleasure in them;

    2While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars are not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain.

  • Eccl 6:11-12
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    11Since there are many things that increase vanity, what advantage does man have?

    12For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

  • Eccl 7:2
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    2It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for that is the end of all men, and the living will take it to heart.

  • Gen 2:7
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    7And the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

  • Ps 103:16
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    16For the wind passes over it, and it is gone; and its place remembers it no more.

  • Job 16:22
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    22When a few years come, then I shall go the way from which I shall not return.

  • Eccl 2:11
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    11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done and on the labor I had toiled to do; and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

  • Job 17:16
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    16They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

  • 2 Sam 14:14
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    14For we must die, and are as water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but he devises means, so that his banished are not expelled from him.

  • Ps 144:4
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    4Man is like vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.

  • Eccl 9:10
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    10Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave where you go.

  • Eccl 8:10
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    10Then I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had done so. This also is vanity.

  • Job 14:2
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    2He comes forth like a flower and is cut down; he flees also as a shadow and does not continue.

  • Job 38:38
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    38When the dust hardens into clumps, and the clods cling together?

  • Job 13:12
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    12Your remembrances are like ashes, your defenses to defenses of clay.

  • Job 21:26
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    26They lie down alike in the dust, and worms cover them.

  • Eccl 11:8
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    8But if a man lives many years, and rejoices in them all, let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. All that comes is vanity.

  • Eccl 3:15
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    15That which is, has already been; and that which is to be, has already been; and God requires an account of the past.

  • Eccl 8:8
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    8There is no man who has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, nor does he have power in the day of death; and there is no release from that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who are given to it.

  • Eccl 4:16
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    16There is no end of all the people, even of all who have been before them; they also that come after will not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.