Ecclesiastes 12:7
and the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return to God who gave it.
Noyes 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
8Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity!
Cross References
Job 4:19What then are they who dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who crumble to pieces, as if moth-eaten!
Job 20:11His bones are full of his youth, But they shall lie down with him in the dust.
Job 34:15Then would all flesh expire together; Yea, man would return to the dust.
Psalms 90:3But man thou turnest again to dust, And sayst, “Return, ye children 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 →