Ecclesiastes 3:20

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 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."
  • Job 34:15 : 15 all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.
  • Ps 104:29 : 29 You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.
  • Eccl 6:6 : 6 Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don't all go to one place?
  • Eccl 9:10 : 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.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
  • Job 7:9 : 9 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.
  • Job 10:9-9 : 9 Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again? 10 Haven't you poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?
  • Job 17:13 : 13 If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
  • Job 30:24 : 24 "However doesn't one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
  • Gen 25:8 : 8 Abraham gave up the spirit, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
  • Gen 25:17 : 17 These are the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred thirty-seven years. He gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people.
  • Num 27:13 : 13 When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered;
  • 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.
  • Eccl 3:21 : 21 Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?"
  • Ps 49:14 : 14 They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.

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  • Eccl 3:18-19
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    18 I said in my heart, "As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.

    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.

  • Job 34:15
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    15 all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.

  • Eccl 12:7-8
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    7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

    8 "Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher. "All is vanity!"

  • Eccl 3:21-22
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    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?

  • Eccl 9:2-3
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    2 All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn't sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.

    3 This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

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

  • Eccl 1:2-5
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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.

  • Job 21:26
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    26 They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.

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

  • 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?

  • 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 6:6-7
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    6 Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don't all go to one place?

    7 All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

  • 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.

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

  • Eccl 6:11-12
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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?

  • Ps 103:15-16
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    15 As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

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

  • 1 Pet 1:24
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    24 For, "All flesh is like grass, and all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

  • Eccl 3:1-2
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    1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

    2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

  • Ps 144:4
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    4 Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

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

  • Eccl 1:14
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    14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

  • Eccl 8:10
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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.

  • Eccl 2:16-17
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    72%

    16 For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory for ever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!

    17 So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

  • Eccl 2:19-20
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    19 Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

    20 Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.

  • Eccl 2:11
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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 7:9
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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.

  • Eccl 11:8
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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.

  • Eccl 7:2
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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.

  • Eccl 3:15
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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 1:9
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    9 That which has been is that which shall be; and that which has been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

  • Ps 49:12
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    12 But man, despite his riches, doesn't endure. He is like the animals that perish.

  • Eccl 9:5
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    5 For the living know that they will die, but the dead don't know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

  • 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.

  • Job 14:2
    71%

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

  • Eccl 2:23
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    23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

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