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


In Context

17 I said in my heart, God will 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, It is because of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are but as beasts.

19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; and man hath no preeminence above the beasts: for all is vanity.

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

21 Who knoweth the spirit of man, whether it goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast, whether it goeth downward to the earth?

22 Wherefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him back 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 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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