Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
And the dust shall turn back to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall turn back to God who gave it.
New American Standard Bible
then 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.
Holman Bible
and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
International Standard Version
then man's dust will go back to the earth, returning to what it was, and the spirit will return to the God who gave it.
A Conservative Version
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
American Standard Version
and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.
Amplified
then the dust [out of which God made man’s body] will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
Bible in Basic English
And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.
Darby Translation
and the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return unto God who gave it.
King James 2000
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it.
Modern King James verseion
then the dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Or dust be turned again unto earth from whence it came, and or the spirit return unto God, which gave it.
NET Bible
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life's breath returns to God who gave it.
New Heart English Bible
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
The Emphasized Bible
And the dust return to the earth, as it was, - and, the spirit, return unto God, who gave it.
Webster
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return to God who gave it.
World English Bible
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Youngs Literal Translation
And the dust returneth to the earth as it was, And the spirit returneth to God who gave it.
Themes
Bible stories for children » David the giant killer 1sa 17 » The most wonderful house in the world
Corruption » Physical decomposition » After death
Topics
Interlinear
Shuwb
Ruwach
Shuwb
'elohiym
References
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 12:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Advice To The Young: Life Is Short And Then You Die
6 Till when the cord of silver shall be removed far off, and the bowl of gold be broken, and the bucket shall be broken at the fountain, and the wheel broken at the cistern. 7 And the dust shall turn back to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall turn back to God who gave it. 8 Vanity of vanities, said the preacher; all is vanity.
Cross References
Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat food until thy turning back to the earth; for out of it thou wert taken; for dust thou art, and to dust shalt thou turn back.
Genesis 2:7
And Jehovah God will form man of the dust from the earth, and will blow into his nostrils the breath of lives, and man shall be for a living soul.
Job 34:14-15
If he will set his heart to him, he will gather his spirit and his breath to him;
Psalm 146:4
His spirit shall go forth, he shall turn back to his earth; in that day his thoughts perished.
Ecclesiastes 3:20-21
All go to one place; all were from dust, and all turned back to dust.
Isaiah 57:16
For not forever will I contend, and not to everlasting will I be angry: for the spirit will faint from before me, and the lives I made.
Zechariah 12:1
The Lifting up of the word of Jehovah for Israel, says Jehovah, stretching forth the heavens and founding the earth, and forming the spirit of man in the midst of him.
Numbers 16:22
And they shall fall upon their faces, and they will say, God, the God of the spirits for all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be angry against all the assembly.
Numbers 27:16
Will Jehovah, the God of the spirits to all flesh, appoint a man over the assembly,
Psalm 90:3
Thou wilt turn man even to crushing, and thou wilt say, Turn back, ye sons of man.
Daniel 12:2
And many sleeping in the earth of dust shall awake, these to eternal life, and these to reproach and eternal abhorrence.
Genesis 18:27
And Abraham will answer and say, Behold now, I have undertaken to speak to my Lord, and I dust and ashes.
Job 4:19-20
Also those dwelling in houses of clay which their foundation in the dust, being crushed before the moth.
Job 7:21
And why wilt thou not lift up my transgression and pass over mine iniquity? for now I shall lie down to the dust; and thou soughtest me and I was not
Job 20:11
His bones were full of his youth, and shall lie down with him in the dust.
Jeremiah 38:16
And king Zedekiah will swear to Jeremiah in secret, saying, Jehovah lives who made to us this soul, if I shall put thee to death, and if I shall give thee into the hand of these men who are seeking thy soul
Hebrews 12:9
Since we truly have fathers of our flesh instructors, and we were influenced: shall we not rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and we shall live?
Hebrews 12:23
To the assembly of people, and church of the firstborn, transcribed in the heavens, and to God the Judge of all, and. to the spirits of the just perfected,