Cross-references Explore similar Bible verses on Ecclesiastes 12:7 in English Standard Version "and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it." Ge 2:7 then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. Job 34:14 If he should set his heart to it and gather to himself his spirit and his breath, Job 34:15 all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust. Ps 90:3 You return man to dust and say, “Return, O children of man!” Ps 103:14 For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust. Ec 3:20 All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return. Ec 3:21 Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down into the earth? Isa 57:16 For I will not contend forever, nor will I always be angry; for the spirit would grow faint before me, and the breath of life that I made. Zec 12:1 The oracle of the word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus declares the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him: