Ecclesiastes 3:20

All go to one place; 1 All were formed of the dust, 1 And all will return to dust. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

In Context

19Also to them is the event of the sons of man, 1 And the event of the brute; 1 One event befalls them: 1 As is the death of the one, so also the death of the other; 1 And there is one breath to all: 1 And what has the man more than the brute? 1 Nothing; for all is vanity. 1

21And who has seen the spirit of the sons of man, 1 Whether it goes upward? 1 And the spirit of the beast, 1 Whether it goes downward to the earth? 1

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Cross References

Genesis 25:8And Abraham failing died in a good old age, an old man and full of days, and was added to his people.

Numbers 27:13And thou shalt see it, and thou also shalt be added to thy people, as Aaron thy brother was added to them in Mount Hor:

Job 10:9Remember that thou hast made me as clay, 1 And thou dost turn me again to earth. 1

Job 14:14For if a man should die, shall he live again, 1 Having accomplished the days of his life? 1 I will wait till I exist again? 1

Job 30:24Oh then that I might lay hands upon myself, 1 Or at least ask another, and he should do this for me. 1

Psalms 49:14Offer to God the sacrifice of praise; 1 And pay thy vows to the Most High. 1

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 →

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