Ecclesiastes 3:20
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20 All go to one place: (A)all are from the dust, and all return to dust.
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Genesis 3:19
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19 (A)In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread
Till you return to the ground,
For out of it you were taken;
(B)For dust you are,
And (C)to dust you shall return.”
Job 34:15
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15 (A)All flesh would perish together,
And man would return to dust.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
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7 (A)Then the dust will return to the earth as it was,
(B)And the spirit will return to God (C)who gave it.
Ecclesiastes 9:10
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10 (A)Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your (B)might; for there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going.
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Ecclesiastes 6:6
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6 even if he lives a thousand years twice—but has not seen goodness. Do not all go to one (A)place?
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Psalm 104:29
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29 You hide Your face, they are troubled;
(A)You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.
Job 10:9-10
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9 Remember, I pray, (A)that You have made me like clay.
And will You turn me into dust again?
10 (B)Did You not pour me out like milk,
And curdle me like cheese,
Job 7:9
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9 As the cloud disappears and vanishes away,
So (A)he who goes down to the grave does not come up.
Daniel 12:2
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2 And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake,
(A)Some to everlasting life,
Some to shame (B)and everlasting [a]contempt.
Footnotes
- Daniel 12:2 Lit. abhorrence
Ecclesiastes 3:21
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21 (A)Who[a] knows the spirit of the sons of men, which goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, which goes down to the earth?
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- Ecclesiastes 3:21 LXX, Syr., Tg., Vg. Who knows whether the spirit . . . goes upward, and whether . . . goes downward to the earth?
Psalm 49:14
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14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave;
Death shall feed on them;
(A)The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning;
(B)And their beauty shall be consumed in [a]the grave, far from their dwelling.
Footnotes
- Psalm 49:14 Or Sheol
Job 30:24
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24 “Surely He would not stretch out His hand against a heap of ruins,
If they cry out when He destroys it.
Job 17:13
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13 If I wait for the grave as my house,
If I make my bed in the darkness,
Numbers 27:13
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13 And when you have seen it, you also (A)shall [a]be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered.
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- Numbers 27:13 Die and join your ancestors
Genesis 25:17
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17 These were the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred and thirty-seven years; and (A)he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.
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Genesis 25:8
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8 Then Abraham breathed his last and (A)died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and (B)was gathered to his people.
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