Ecclesiastes 3:20

God's Mysterious Plan Allows Injustice To Exist In The World

¹⁹ Because the fate of the sons of men and the fate of the beasts is the same. As is the death of one so is the death of the other, and all have one spirit. Man is not higher than the beasts; because all is to no purpose. ²⁰ All go to one place, all are of the dust, and all will be turned to dust again. ²¹ Who is certain that the spirit of the sons of men goes up to heaven, or that the spirit of the beasts goes down to the earth?

All Return to Dust

Return to Dust

Genesis 3:19

With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.

Job 34:15

All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.

Genesis 25:8

And Abraham came to his death, an old man, full of years; and he was put to rest with his people.

Genesis 25:17

And the years of Ishmael's life were a hundred and thirty-seven: and he came to his end, and was put to rest with his people.

Numbers 27:13

And when you have seen it, you will be put to rest with your people, as your brother Aaron was:

Job 7:9

A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again.

Job 10:9-10

O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?

Job 17:13

If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;

Job 30:24

Has not my hand been stretched out in help to the poor? have I not been a saviour to him in his trouble?

Psalm 49:14

Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.

Psalm 104:29

If your face is veiled, they are troubled; when you take away their breath, they come to an end, and go back to the dust.

Ecclesiastes 3:21

Who is certain that the spirit of the sons of men goes up to heaven, or that the spirit of the beasts goes down to the earth?

Ecclesiastes 6:6

And though he goes on living a thousand years twice over and does not see good, are not the two going to the same place?

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.

Daniel 12:2

And a number of those who are sleeping in the dust of the earth will come out of their sleep, some to eternal life and some to eternal shame.