Ecclesiastes 12:7
and the dust returns to its earth, from which it was, and the spirit returns to God, who granted it.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
In Context
8Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes, and all is vanity!
Cross References
Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, until you return to the earth from which you were taken. For dust you are, and unto dust you shall return.”
Numbers 16:22But they fell prone on their faces, and they said, “O most strong One, the God of the spirits of all flesh, should your anger rage against all, for the sin of one?”
Job 4:19How much more will those who live in houses of clay, which have an earthly foundation, be consumed like the moth?
Job 20:11His bones will be filled with the vices of his youth, and they will sleep with him in the dust.
Job 34:15All flesh will fail together, and man will return to ashes.
Psalms 90:3For he has freed me from the snare of those who go hunting, and from the harsh word.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 12:2-8
The Infirmities of Old Age; The Effects of Death. 1 Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; 2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain: 3 In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, 4… Read the whole commentary →