Ecclesiastes 3:20
All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
In Context
21Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and the spirit of the animal descends into the earth?
Cross References
Genesis 25:8And at a ripe old age he breathed his last and died, old and contented, and was gathered to his people.
Numbers 27:13After you have seen it, you too will be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron was;
Job 10:9Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
Job 14:14When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.
Job 30:24Yet no one stretches out his hand against a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress.
Psalms 49:14Like sheep they are destined for Sheol. Death will be their shepherd. The upright will rule them in the morning, and their form will decay in Sheol, far from their lofty abode.
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 →