Ecclesiastes 12:7

English Standard Version

7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it. (Ge 2:7; Job 34:14; Job 34:15; Ps 90:3; Ps 103:14; Ec 3:20; Ec 3:21; Isa 57:16; Zec 12:1) 

New International Version

7 and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it. 

New International Reader’s Version

7 Remember your Creator before you return to the dust you came from. Remember him before your spirit goes back to God who gave it. 

King James Version

7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. 

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