Ecclesiastes 3:20
All go unto one place: all are of the dust, and all return to dust.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 25:8And Abraham expired and died in a good old age, old and full [of days]; and was gathered to his peoples.
Numbers 27:13And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy peoples, as Aaron thy brother was gathered,
Job 10:9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as clay, and wilt bring me into dust again.
Job 14:14(If a man die, shall he live [again]?) all the days of my time of toil would I wait, till my change should come:
Job 30:24Indeed, no prayer [availeth] when he stretcheth out [his] hand: though they cry when he destroyeth.
Psalms 49:14Like sheep are they laid in Sheol: Death feedeth on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their comeliness shall be for Sheol to consume, that there be no habitation for them.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 3:17-22
Immutability of God's Counsel; The Extent of Mortality. 16 And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there. 17 I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work. 18 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. 19 For that which befalleth the… Read the whole commentary →