Ecclesiastes 3:20
Modern Translations
New International Version
All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.

New Living Translation
Both go to the same place—they came from dust and they return to dust.

English Standard Version
All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return.

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

New American Standard Bible
All go to the same place. All came from the dust and all return to the dust.

NASB 1995
All go to the same place. All came from the dust and all return to the dust.

NASB 1977
All go to the same place. All came from the dust and all return to the dust.

Amplified Bible
All go to the same place. All came from the dust and all return to the dust.

Christian Standard Bible
All are going to the same place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
All are going to the same place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.

Contemporary English Version
All living creatures go to the same place. We are made from earth, and we return to earth.

Good News Translation
They are both going to the same place--the dust. They both came from it; they will both go back to it.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
All [life] goes to the same place. All [life] comes from the ground, and all of it goes back to the ground.

International Standard Version
All of them go to one place: all of them originate from dust, and all of them return to dust.

NET Bible
Both go to the same place, both come from the dust, and to dust both return.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

New King James Version
All go to one place: all are from the dust, and all return to dust.

King James 2000 Bible
All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

New Heart English Bible
All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

World English Bible
All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

American King James Version
All go to one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

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

A Faithful Version
All go to one place; all are of the dust, and all return to dust again.

Darby Bible Translation
All go unto one place: all are of the dust, and all return to dust.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
All go to one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
All goe to one place, & all was of the dust, and all shall returne to the dust.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
They go all vnto one place: for as they be all of dust, so shall they all turne vnto dust agayne.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
They go all vnto one place, for as they be all of dust, so shal they all turne vnto dust againe.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
The whole are going to one place, the whole have been from the dust, and the whole are turning back to the dust.

Young's Literal Translation
The whole are going unto one place, the whole have been from the dust, and the whole are turning back unto the dust.

Smith's Literal Translation
All go to one place; all were from dust, and all turned back to dust.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And all things go to one place: of earth they were made, and into earth they return together.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And all things continue on to one place; for from the earth they were made, and unto the earth they shall return together.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
All go to one place; everyone was from dust and each returns to dust.

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

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all return to dust.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
All go to one place; all were formed of the dust, and all will return to dust.
















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