Ecclesiastes 12:7

before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Majority Standard Bible

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

6Remember Him before the silver cord is snapped and the golden bowl is crushed, before the pitcher is shattered at the spring and the wheel is broken at the well,

8“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher. “Everything is futile!”

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Cross References

Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

Numbers 16:22But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, when one man sins, will You be angry with the whole congregation?”

Job 4:19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!

Job 20:11The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.

Job 34:15all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.

Psalms 90:3You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”

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 →

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