Ecclesiastes 3:20

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

¹⁹ For the fate of people and the fate of animals is the same. As one dies, so dies the other; they all have the same breath. People have no advantage over animals since everything is futile. ²⁰ All are going to the same place; all come from dust, and all return to dust. ²¹ Who knows if the spirit of people rises upward and the spirit of animals goes downward to the earth?

All Return to Dust

Return to Dust

Genesis 3:19

You will eat bread by the sweat of your brow
until you return to the ground,
since you were taken from it.
For you are dust,
and you will return to dust.”

Job 34:15

every living thing would perish together
and mankind would return to the dust.

Genesis 25:8

He took his last breath and died at a ripe old age, old and contented, and he was gathered to his people.

Genesis 25:17

This is the length of Ishmael’s life: 137 years. He took his last breath and died, and was gathered to his people.

Numbers 27:13

After you have seen it, you will also be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was.

Job 7:9

As a cloud fades away and vanishes,
so the one who goes down to Sheol will never rise again.

Job 10:9-10

Please remember that You formed me like clay.
Will You now return me to dust?

Job 17:13

If I await Sheol as my home,
spread out my bed in darkness,

Job 30:24

Yet no one would stretch out his hand
against a ruined man
when he cries out to him for help
because of his distress.

Psalm 49:14

Like sheep they are headed for Sheol;
Death will shepherd them.
The upright will rule over them in the morning,
and their form will waste away in Sheol,
far from their lofty abode.

Psalm 104:29

When You hide Your face,
they are terrified;
when You take away their breath,
they die and return to the dust.

Ecclesiastes 3:21

Who knows if the spirit of people rises upward and the spirit of animals goes downward to the earth?

Ecclesiastes 6:6

And if he lives a thousand years twice, but does not experience happiness, do not both go to the same place?

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hands find to do, do with all your strength, because there is no work, planning, knowledge, or wisdom in Sheol where you are going.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it once was,
and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Daniel 12:2

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