Ecclesiastes 3:20

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

¹⁹ For what happens to people also happens to animals a single event happens to them: just as someone dies, so does the other. In fact, they all breathe the same way, so that a human being has no superiority over an animal. All of this is pointless. ²⁰ All of them go to one place: all of them originate from dust, and all of them return to dust. ²¹ Who knows whether the spirit of human beings ascends, and whether the spirit of animals descends to the earth?

All Return to Dust

Return to Dust

Genesis 3:19

You will eat food by the sweat of your brow until you're buried in the ground, because you were taken from it. You're made from dust and you'll return to dust."

Job 34:15

every living thing would die all at once, and mankind would return to dust."

Genesis 25:8

then passed away, dying at a ripe old age, having lived a full life, and joined his ancestors.

Genesis 25:17

Ishmael lived for 137 years, then he took his last breath, died, and joined his ancestors.

Numbers 27:13

After you've seen it, you'll be taken to be with your people just as your brother Aaron was gathered to them,

Job 7:9

As a cloud fades away and vanishes, the one who descends to the afterlife doesn't return.

Job 10:9-10

""Please remember that you've made me like clay and you'll return me to dust.

Job 17:13

"If my hope were that my house is the afterlife itself, if I were to make my bed in darkness,

Job 30:24

"Surely he won't stretch his hand against the needy, will he, especially if they cry to him in their calamity?

Psalm 49:14

Like sheep, they are destined for the realm of the dead, with death as their shepherd. The upright will have dominion over them in the morning; their strength will be consumed in the afterlife, so that they have no home.

Psalm 104:29

When you withdraw your favor, they are disappointed; Take away their breath, and they die and return to dust.

Ecclesiastes 3:21

Who knows whether the spirit of human beings ascends, and whether the spirit of animals descends to the earth?

Ecclesiastes 6:6

Even if he lives a thousand years twice over without experiencing the best aren't all of them going to the same place?

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever the activity in which you engage, do it with all your ability, because there is no work, no planning, no learning, and no wisdom in the next world where you're going.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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.

Daniel 12:2

Many of those who are sleeping in the dust of the earth will awaken some to life everlasting, and some to disgrace and everlasting contempt.