Ecclesiastes 3:20

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

¹⁹ What happens to the sons of men also happens to animals. As the one dies so the other dies. Yes, they all have one breath so that a man has no advantage over animals. For all is vanity. ²⁰ All go to the same place. All came from the dust and all return to the dust. ²¹ Who knows the breath of man that goes upward, and the breath of the animal that goes downward to the earth?

All Return to Dust

Return to Dust

Genesis 3:19

You will eat your food by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground. You came from the ground. For dust you are and to dust you will return.

Job 34:15

All flesh would perish and man would return to dust.

Genesis 25:8

Then he took his last breath and died at a very old age. After a long and full life, he joined his ancestors in death.

Genesis 25:17

Ishmael lived one hundred and thirty-seven years. Then he died and was gathered to his ancestors.

Numbers 27:13

After you see it, you, too, will join your ancestors in death, as your brother Aaron did.

Job 7:9

Just as a cloud dissipates and vanishes; those who die will not come back.

Job 10:9-10

Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again?

Job 17:13

Should I look for the grave as my home and make my bed in the darkness?

Job 30:24

Does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand, Or in his disaster cry out for help?

Psalm 49:14

Like sheep, they are laid in the grave. Death will shepherd them. The upright will rule them in the morning. Their forms will decay in the grave, far away from their comfortable homes.

Psalm 104:29

You hide your face, and they are frightened. You take away their breath, and they die and return to dust.

Ecclesiastes 3:21

Who knows the breath of man that goes upward, and the breath of the animal that goes downward to the earth?

Ecclesiastes 6:6

Even though he lives a thousand years twice over, yet he has seen no good. Do not all go to one place?

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, where you are going.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

Then the dust will return to the earth as it was. The spirit (life) will return to God who gave it.

Daniel 12:2

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.