Ecclesiastes 12:7

World English Bible (2000)

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

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  • Gen 3:19 : 19 By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
  • Ps 146:4 : 4 His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.
  • Gen 2:7 : 7 Yahweh 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 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 An oracle. The word of Yahweh concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:
  • Eccl 3:20-21 : 20 All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again. 21 Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?"
  • Isa 57:16 : 16 For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls who I have made.
  • Job 34:14-15 : 14 If he set his heart on himself, If he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath, 15 all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.
  • Ps 90:3 : 3 You turn man to destruction, saying, "Return, you children of men."
  • Heb 12:9 : 9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
  • Heb 12:23 : 23 to the general assembly and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
  • Jer 38:16 : 16 So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, As Yahweh lives, who made us this soul, I will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life.
  • Gen 18:27 : 27 Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.
  • Num 16:22 : 22 They fell on their faces, and said, "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 Yahweh, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,
  • Job 4:19-20 : 19 How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth! 20 Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.
  • Job 7:21 : 21 Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."
  • Job 20:11 : 11 His bones are full of his youth, but youth shall lie down with him in the dust.

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    19 For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals: for all is vanity.

    20 All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

    21 Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?"

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

  • Job 34:14-15
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    14 If he set his heart on himself, If he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,

    15 all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.

  • Eccl 12:5-6
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    5 yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be in the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:

    6 before the silver cord is severed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the spring, or the wheel broken at the cistern,

  • Eccl 12:8
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    8 "Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher. "All is vanity!"

  • Ps 146:4
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    4 His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

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

    30 You send forth your Spirit: they are created. You renew the face of the ground.

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

    10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

  • Gen 3:19
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    19 By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

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

  • Job 14:10-12
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    10 But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

    11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,

    12 so man lies down and doesn't rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

  • Ps 90:3
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    3 You turn man to destruction, saying, "Return, you children of men."

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

    16 This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?

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

    3 What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?

    4 One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth remains forever.

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

    6 The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the north. It turns around continually as it goes, and the wind returns again to its courses.

    7 All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again.

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    1 Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, "I have no pleasure in them;"

    2 Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;

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    11 For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?

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

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    2 It 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 should take this to heart.

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    7 Yahweh 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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    16 For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.

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    22 For when a few years are come, I shall go the way of no return.

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    11 Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

  • Job 17:16
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    16 Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?"

  • 2 Sam 14:14
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    14 For we must die, and are as water split on the ground, which can't be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.

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    4 Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

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

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    10 So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.

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    2 He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.

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    38 when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of earth stick together?

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    12 Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.

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    26 They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.

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    8 Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

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    15 That which is has been long ago, and that which is to be has been long ago: and God seeks again that which is passed away.

  • Eccl 8:8
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    8 There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.

  • Eccl 4:16
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    16 There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was--yet those who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.