- Bible
- Ecclesiastes
- Chapter 3
- Verse 20
All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
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Commentary
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Gill's Exposition
All go unto one place,.... The earth (w) from whence they came;
all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again; Adam's body was made of the dust of the earth, and so all his posterity, all of them;…
That great anomaly in the moral government of this world, the seemingly unequal distribution of rewards and punishments, will be rectified by God, who has future times and events under His control Ecc…
Solomon is still showing that every thing in this world, without piety and the fear of God, is vanity. Take away religion, and there is nothing valuable among men, nothing for the sake of which a wise…
Cambridge Bible
All go unto one place The "place" thus spoken of is not the Sheolof the Hebrews or the Hadesof the Greeks, which implied, however vaguely, some notion of a shadowy disembodied existence, for the souls…
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