Ecclesiastes 12:7
and the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return unto God who gave it.
Darby Translation
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, saith the Preacher: all is vanity.
Cross References
Genesis 3:19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground: for out of it wast thou taken. For dust thou art; and unto dust shalt thou return.
Numbers 16:22And they fell on their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh! shall *one* man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with the whole assembly?
Job 4:19How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed as the moth!
Job 20:11His bones were full of his youthful strength; but it shall lie down with him in the dust.
Job 34:15All flesh would expire together, and man would return to the dust.
Psalms 90:3Thou makest [mortal] man to return to dust, and sayest, Return, children of men.
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 →