Ecclesiastes 3:20 Parallel Translations
NASB: All go to the same place. All came from the dust and all return to the dust. (NASB ©1995)
GWT: All life goes to the same place. All life comes from the ground, and all of it goes back to the ground.(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
ASV: All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
BBE: All go to one place, all are of the dust, and all will be turned to dust again.
DBY: All go unto one place: all are of the dust, and all return to dust.
ERV: All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
JPS: All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all return to dust.
WBS: All go to one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
WEB: All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.
YLT: The whole are going unto one place, the whole have been from the dust, and the whole are turning back unto the dust.
Ecclesiastes 3:20 Cross References
XREF:Genesis 3:19 By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return."

Psalm 103:14 For He Himself knows our frame; He is mindful that we are but dust.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it. (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
WES: 3:20 One place - To the earth, out of which they were taken. All turn - All their bodies.
MHC: 3:16-22 Without the fear of the Lord, man is but vanity; set that aside, and judges will not use their power well. And there is another Judge that stands before the door. With God there is a time for the redressing of grievances, though as yet we see it not. Solomon seems to express his wish that men might perceive, that by choosing this world as their portion, they brought themselves to a level with the beasts, without being free, as they are, from present vexations and a future account. Both return to the dust from whence they were taken. What little reason have we to be proud of our bodies, or bodily accomplishments! But as none can fully comprehend, so few consider properly, the difference between the rational soul of man, and the spirit or life of the beast. The spirit of man goes upward, to be judged, and is then fixed in an unchangeable state of happiness or misery. It is as certain that the spirit of the beast goes downward to the earth; it perishes at death. Surely their case is lamentable, the height of whose hopes and wishes is, that they may die like beasts. Let our inquiry be, how an eternity of existence may be to us an eternity of enjoyment? To answer this, is the grand design of revelation. Jesus is revealed as the Son of God, and the Hope of sinners.
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