Ecclesiastes 12:7

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Ecclesiastes 12:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible

5 when men fear the heights and dangers of the road, when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper loses its spring, and the caper berry shrivels— for then man goes to his eternal home and mourners walk the streets.

6 Remember 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,

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

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

9 Not only was the Teacher wise, but he also taught the people knowledge; he pondered, searched out, and arranged many proverbs.

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Ecclesiastes 3:20

All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.

Genesis 3:19

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.”

Genesis 18:27

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

Job 4:19

how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!

Job 4:20

They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.

Job 7:21

Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”

Job 20:11

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

Job 34:14

If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,

Job 34:15

all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.

Psalms 90:3

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

Psalms 146:4

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

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

Ecclesiastes 3:21

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

Genesis 2:7

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

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

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

Isaiah 57:16

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

Jeremiah 38:16

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.”

Zechariah 12:1

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:

Hebrews 12:9

Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live?

Hebrews 12:23

in joyful assembly, to the congregation of the firstborn, enrolled in heaven. You have come to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,