Ecclesiastes 12:7

Then our corpses will decay and become dirt again, and our spirits will return to God, the one who gave us our spirits.

Translation for Translators

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

6Think much about God now, because soon our lives will end, like [MET] silver chains or golden bowls that break easily, or like pitchers/jugs that are broken at the water fountain, or like broken pulleys at a well.

8So I say again that it is difficult to understand why everything happens; everything is mysterious.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:19All your life you will sweat as you work hard to produce food to eat. Then you will die [EUP], and your body will be buried in the ground. I made you from soil, so when you die and are buried your body will decay and become soil again.”

Numbers 16:22But Aaron and Moses/I prostrated themselves/ourselves on the ground. We pleaded with Yahweh, saying, “God, you are the one who caused all these people to live [MTY]. Only one of these men has sinned; so, ◄is it right for you to be angry with all the people?/it is not right for you to be angry with all the people!► [RHQ]”

Job 4:19So he certainly cannot trust human beings who were made from dust and clay, who are crushed as easily as moths are crushed!

Job 20:11Previously their bodies were young and strong, but they will die and their bodies will be buried in the ground.

Job 34:15everyone would die immediately, and their corpses would soon become dirt again.

Psalms 90:3When people die, you cause their corpses to become soil again; you change their corpses to become dirt like the first man was created from.

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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