Ecclesiastes 12:7 “before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spiri…”

Ecclesiastes 12:7

before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.

Geneva Bible 1599

And dust returne to the earth as it was, and the spirit returne to God that gaue it.

Darby Translation

and the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return unto God who gave it.

Young's Literal Translation

And the dust returneth to the earth as it was, And the spirit returneth to God who gave it.

Bible in Basic English

And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.

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Cross references

“dust”

Daniel 12:2 Psalm 146:4 Genesis 3:19 Job 20:11 Psalm 90:3 Genesis 18:27

Daniel 12:2 · BSB

And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.

Psalm 146:4 · BSB

When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.

Genesis 3:19 · BSB

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.”

Job 20:11 · BSB

The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.

Psalm 90:3 · BSB

You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”

Genesis 18:27 · BSB

Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—

“the spirit”

Ecclesiastes 3:21

Ecclesiastes 3:21 · BSB

Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and the spirit of the animal descends into the earth?

“God”

Zechariah 12:1 Isaiah 57:16 Genesis 2:7 Numbers 16:22 Numbers 27:16 Jeremiah 38:16

Zechariah 12:1 · BSB

This is the burden of the word of the LORD concerning Israel. Thus declares the LORD, who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth, who forms the spirit of man within him:

Isaiah 57:16 · BSB

For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me— the breath of life I have made.

Genesis 2:7 · BSB

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.

Numbers 16:22 · BSB

But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, when one man sins, will You be angry with the whole congregation?”

Numbers 27:16 · BSB

“May the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation

Jeremiah 38:16 · BSB

But King Zedekiah swore secretly to Jeremiah, “As surely as the LORD lives, who has given us this life, I will not kill you, nor will I deliver you into the hands of these men who are seeking your life.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

6Remember Him before the silver cord is snapped and the golden bowl is crushed, before the pitcher is shattered at the spring and the wheel is broken at the well,

8“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher. “Everything is futile!”

Read Ecclesiastes 12