Ecclesiastes 3:20,21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

All go unto one place To the earth, as it is expressed Ecclesiastes 3:21, out of which they were both taken. All turn to dust again All their bodies, as it is explained Ecclesiastes 12:7. Who knoweth the spirit of a man True it is, there is a difference, which is known by good men, but the generality of mankind never mind it; their hearts are wholly set on present and sensible things, and take no thought for the things of the future and invisible world.

Ecclesiastes 3:20-21

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

21 Who knoweth the spirit of mand that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?