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


In Context

17 I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.

18 I said in my heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

19 For that which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts; even one thing befalls them: as the one dies, so dies the other; yes, they have all one breath; so that a man has no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.

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

21 Who knows the spirit of man that goes upward, and the spirit of the beast that goes downward to the earth?

22 Why I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?

Ecclesiastes 3:20 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:20All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:20All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:20And all things go to one place: of earth they were made, and into earth they return together.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:20All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:20All go unto one place: all are of the dust, and all return to dust.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:20All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:20All go to one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:20All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:20The whole are going unto one place, the whole have been from the dust, and the whole are turning back unto the dust.