All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
The whole are going unto one place, the whole have been from the dust, and the whole are turning back unto the dust.
All go unto one place: all are of the dust, and all return to dust.
Ecclesiastes — Qohelet the Preacher — ''vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'' The book's relentless examination of life under the sun, resolving not in despair but in ''fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.''
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
Voices4
The resurrection as a fact is not to be rejected because of an exceptional situation. Yet, since all things earthly return and crumble into the earth, I wonder how there can be any doubt even concerning the instances noted. For the most part, the sea itself also casts up on neighboring shores whatever human bodies it has swallowed. And if this were not so, it surely would not be difficult for God to join what has been scattered and to unite again what has been dispersed.
Ambrose of Milan· On the Death of Satyrus 2.58, 397patristic
"Then I said to myself concerning men: God has chosen them out, but only to see that they themselves are as beasts. For the fate of men and the fate of beast - they have one and the same fate: as one dies so the other dies, and they all have the same spirit. Man has no superiority over beast, for all is futile. All go to the same place; all originate from dust and return to dust.
Jerome· Commentary on Ecclesiastes, 420patristic
All go unto one place,.... The earth (w) from whence they came; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again; Adam's body was made of the dust of the earth, and so all his posterity, all of them; in which they agree with beasts, who are made of the dust also; and, when they die, return to it; see Gen 2:7. (w) "Magna parens terra est", Ovid. Metamorph. l. 1. Fab. 7.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
All go unto one place - Man was born To die, nor aught exceeds in this respect The vilest brute. Both transient, frail, and vain, Draw the same breath; alike grow old, decay, And then expire: both to one grave descend; There blended lie, to native dust returnd. - C.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832evangelical
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground— because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
leads to
before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.
When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.
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Ecclesiastes 12:7before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
leads to
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground— because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.
When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,
The verses this one reaches12
before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,
Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground— because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.
even if he lives a thousand years twice over but fails to enjoy his prosperity. Do not all go to the same place?
After you have seen it, you too will be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron was;
Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and the spirit of the animal descends into the earth?
When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.
As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.
Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
6 more linked verses are grouped by book below ↓
Every other verse the study tradition links to this one, in the Bible’s own order. The first links in each book carry a line of their text; every reference opens its full verse page.
Genesis2
Job2
Psalms1
Cross-references are drawn from classic Bible study tools and open, shareable Bible data.
