Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
All go to one place; all were from dust, and all turned back to dust.
New American Standard Bible
All go to the same place. All came from the
King James Version
All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Holman Bible
All are going to the same place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.
International Standard Version
All of them go to one place: all of them originate from dust, and all of them return to dust.
A Conservative Version
All go to one place. All are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
American Standard Version
All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Amplified
All go to the same place. All came from the dust and all return to the dust.
Bible in Basic English
All go to one place, all are of the dust, and all will be turned to dust again.
Darby Translation
All go unto one place: all are of the dust, and all return to dust.
King James 2000
All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Both go to one place--both came from dust and both return to dust.
Modern King James verseion
All go to one place; all are of the dust, and all return to dust again.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They go all unto one place, for as they be all of dust, so shall they all turn unto dust again.
NET Bible
Both go to the same place, both come from the dust, and to dust both return.
New Heart English Bible
All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.
The Emphasized Bible
all, go unto one place, - all, came from the dust, and all, return to the dust.
Webster
All go to one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
World English Bible
All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Youngs Literal Translation
The whole are going unto one place, the whole have been from the dust, and the whole are turning back unto the dust.
Interlinear
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References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 3:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Mysterious Plan Allows Injustice To Exist In The World
19 For the event of the sons of man, and the event of the cattle, one event to them: as this, so dies this; and the breath of one to all; and the preeminence of man not above the cattle: for all is vanity. 20 All go to one place; all were from dust, and all turned back to dust. 21 Who shall know the spirit of the sons of man? it ascending to above, and the spirit of cattle, it going downwards to the earth.
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.
Job 34:15
All flesh shall expire together, and man shall turn back to dust
Genesis 25:8
And Abraham shall expire, and shall die in a good old age, and being. filled; and he shall be added to his people.
Genesis 25:17
And these the years of the life of Ishmael: a hundred years, and thirty years and seven years: and he will expire and die; and he will be added to his People
Numbers 27:13
And thou sawest it, and wert gathered to thy people, thou also, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.
Job 7:9
The cloud will end and will go away: thus he shall go down to hades and shall not come up.
Job 10:9-10
Remember now, thou didst make me as day; and thou wilt turn me back to dust.
Job 17:13
If I shall wait, hades is my house: in darkness I spread my bed.
Job 30:24
But prayer is nothing; he will send forth the hand, if in his calamity to them a cry for help.
Psalm 49:14
As sheep they were laid in hades; death shall rule over them, and the upright shall come down upon them in the morning; and their rock for falling away in hades from a dwelling to him.
Psalm 104:29
Thou wilt hide thy face, they will tremble: thou wilt take away their spirit, they shall expire and turn back to dust
Ecclesiastes 3:21
Who shall know the spirit of the sons of man? it ascending to above, and the spirit of cattle, it going downwards to the earth.
Ecclesiastes 6:6
And although he lived a thousand years twice, and he saw not good. Did not all go to one place?
Ecclesiastes 9:10
All which thy hand shall find to do, with thy strength, do thou; for no work and understanding and knowledge and wisdom, in hades where thou goest there.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
And the dust shall turn back to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall turn back to God who gave it.
Daniel 12:2
And many sleeping in the earth of dust shall awake, these to eternal life, and these to reproach and eternal abhorrence.