Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

and the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return unto God who gave it.

New American Standard Bible

then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

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 dust returns to the earth as it once was,
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.

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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
עפר 
`aphar 
Usage: 110

שׁוּב 
Shuwb 
Usage: 1058

to the earth
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

as it was and the spirit
רוּח 
Ruwach 
Usage: 378

שׁוּב 
Shuwb 
Usage: 1058

אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

נתן 
Nathan 
Usage: 2011

Context Readings

Advice To The Young: Life Is Short And Then You Die

6 before the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be shattered at the fountain, or the wheel be broken at the cistern; 7 and the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return unto God who gave it. 8 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher: all is vanity.

Cross References

Genesis 3:19

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground: for out of it wast thou taken. For dust thou art; and unto dust shalt thou return.

Genesis 2:7

And Jehovah Elohim formed Man, dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and Man became a living soul.

Job 34:14-15

If he only thought of himself, and gathered unto him his spirit and his breath,

Psalm 146:4

His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his purposes perish.

Ecclesiastes 3:20-21

All go unto one place: all are of the dust, and all return to dust.

Isaiah 57:16

For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth; for the spirit would fail before me, and the souls which I have made.

Zechariah 12:1

The burden of the word of Jehovah concerning Israel. Thus saith Jehovah, who stretcheth out the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him:

Numbers 16:22

And they fell on their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh! shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with the whole assembly?

Numbers 27:16

Let Jehovah, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the assembly,

Psalm 90:3

Thou makest mortal man to return to dust, and sayest, Return, children of men.

Daniel 12:2

And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame, to everlasting contempt.

Genesis 18:27

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have ventured to speak unto the Lord; I, who am dust and ashes.

Job 4:19-20

How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed as the moth!

Job 7:21

And why dost not thou forgive my transgression and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I lie down in the dust, and thou shalt seek me early, and I shall not be.

Job 20:11

His bones were full of his youthful strength; but it shall lie down with him in the dust.

Jeremiah 38:16

And king Zedekiah swore secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As Jehovah liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life.

Hebrews 12:9

Moreover we have had the fathers of our flesh as chasteners, and we reverenced them; shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

Hebrews 12:23

the universal gathering; and to the assembly of the firstborn who are registered in heaven; and to God, judge of all; and to the spirits of just men made perfect;

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