KJV King James Version
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
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Ecclesiastes 12:7
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
WEB World English Bible
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
ASV American Standard Version
and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And the dust returneth to the earth as it was, And the spirit returneth to God who gave it.
Surrounding context — Ecclesiastes 12
4 And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;
5 Also [when] they shall be afraid of [that which is] high, and fears [shall be] in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
8 Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all [is] vanity.
9 And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, [and] set in order many proverbs.
10 The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and [that which was] written [was] upright, [even] words of truth.
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וְיָשֹׁ֧בH7725 · shuvto return: returnהֶעָפָ֛רH6083 · a.phardustעַל־H5921 · aluponהָאָ֖רֶץH776 · e.retsland: country/planetכְּשֶׁהָיָ֑הH1961 · ha.yahto beוְהָר֣וּחַH7307 · ru.achspiritתָּשׁ֔וּבH7725 · shuvto return: returnאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)הָאֱלֹהִ֖יםH430 · e.lo.himGodאֲשֶׁ֥רH834 · a.sherwhichנְתָנָֽהּ׃H5414 · na.tanto give: give
Cross-references
Daniel 12:2And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame [and] everlasting contempt.Ecclesiastes 3:20-21All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.Psalm 146:4His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.Genesis 3:19In 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 34:14-15If he set his heart upon man, [if] he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;Isaiah 57:16For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls [which] I have made.Zechariah 12:1The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.Genesis 2:7And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.Numbers 16:22And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?Job 20:11His bones are full [of the sin] of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.Numbers 27:16Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,Jeremiah 38:16So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, [As] the LORD liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life.Job 4:19-20How much less [in] them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation [is] in the dust, [which] are crushed before the moth?Psalm 90:3Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.Genesis 18:27And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which [am but] dust and ashes:Hebrews 12:9Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected [us], and we gave [them] reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?Hebrews 12:23To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,Job 7:21And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I [shall] not [be].
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