Ecclesiastes 3:20
Good News Translation
They are both going to the same place--the dust. They both came from it; they will both go back to it.

New Revised Standard Version
All go to one place; all are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Contemporary English Version
All living creatures go to the same place. We are made from earth, and we return to earth.

New American Bible
Both go to the same place; both were made from the dust, and to the dust they both return.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And all things go to one place: of earth they were made, and into earth they return together.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And all things go to one place: of earth they were made, and into earth they return together.

Ecclesiastes 3:21 Who knoweth if the spirit of the children of Adam ascend upward, and if the spirit of the beasts descend downward?

Ecclesiastes 6:6 Although he lived two thousand years, and hath not enjoyed good things: do not all make haste to one place?

Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening.

Genesis 25:8,17 And decaying he died in a good old age, and having lived a long time, and being full of days: and was gathered to his people. . . .

Numbers 27:13 And when thou shalt have seen it, thou also shalt go to thy people, as thy brother Aaron is gone:

Job 7:9 As a cloud is consumed, and passeth away: so he that shall go down to hell shall not come up.

Job 17:13 If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness.

Job 30:24 But yet thou stretchest not forth thy hand to their consumption: and if they shall fall down thou wilt save.

Psalm 49:14 They are laid in hell like sheep: death shall feed upon them. And the just shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their help shall decay in hell from their glory.

all are

Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.

Job 10:9,10 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay, and thou wilt bring me into dust . . .

Job 34:15 All flesh shall perish together, and man shall return into ashes.

Psalm 104:29 But if thou turnest away thy face, they shall be troubled: thou shalt take away their breath, and they shall fail, and shall return to their dust.

Daniel 12:2 And many of those that sleep in the dust of the earth, shall awake: some unto life everlasting, and others unto reproach, to see it always.

Context
From Dust to Dust
19Therefore the death of man, and of beasts is one, and the condition of them both is equal: as man dieth, so they also die: all things breathe alike, and man hath nothing more than beast: all things are subject to vanity. 20And all things go to one place: of earth they were made, and into earth they return together.21Who knoweth if the spirit of the children of Adam ascend upward, and if the spirit of the beasts descend downward?…
Cross References
Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.

Psalm 103:14
For he knoweth our frame. He remembereth that we are dust:

Ecclesiastes 7:2
It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting: for in that we are put in mind of the end of all, and the living thinketh what is to come.

Ecclesiastes 12:7
And the dust return into its earth, from whence it was, and the spirit return to God, who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 3:19
Top of Page
Top of Page