Ecclesiastes 3:20-21

All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust. Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and the spirit of the animal descends into the earth?

Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Read all of Ecclesiastes 3

3 songs meet this passage

  • S.C.A.V.A. · Hollywood Undead

    resonates with Ecclesiastes 3:20-21

    The uncertainty over what comes after death reflects the Preacher's own honest admission of not knowing where the spirit goes.

  • Diamonds · Rihanna

    strains against Ecclesiastes 3:19-20

    The lyric's claim of permanence through love is a human longing Scripture names honestly as unfulfilled apart from God; mortality is real even amid romantic bliss.

  • Awake My Soul · Mumford & Sons

    resonates with Ecclesiastes 3:20

    The song names the plain fact of mortality the way the Preacher does, as a sober backdrop for how we should live.

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