Ecclesiastes 3:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Ecclesiastes 3:20 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Job 34:15
All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Ecclesiastes 6:6
Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?
Ecclesiastes 3:21
Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?

Topics

Corruption Creation Dead (people)Death Dying God Life Man

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 16-22)

Solomon is still showing that every thing in this world, without piety and the fear of God, is vanity. Take away religion, and there is nothing valuable among men, nothing for the sake of which a wise man would think it worth while to live in this world. In these verses he shows that power (than which there is nothing men are more ambitious of) and life itself (than which there is nothing men are…