Ecclesiastes 12:7
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
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- Daniel 12:2 Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
- Ecclesiastes 3:20–21 All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?”
- Psalm 146:4 His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.