Ecclesiastes 12:7
And the dust returns to the earth as it was, || And the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Literal Standard 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 the preacher, the whole [is] vanity.
Cross References
Genesis 3:19by the sweat of your face you eat bread until your return to the ground, for you have been taken out of it, for dust you [are], and to dust you return.”
Numbers 16:22and they fall on their faces, and say, “God, God of the spirits of all flesh—one man sins, and are You angry against all the congregation?”
Job 4:19Also—the inhabitants of houses of clay || (Whose foundation [is] in the dust, || They bruise them before a moth).
Job 20:11His bones have been full of his youth, and it lies down with him on the dust.
Job 34:15All flesh expires together, || And man returns to dust.
Psalms 90:3You turn man to a bruised thing, || And say, Return, you sons 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 →