Ecclesiastes 3:20 NASB,NASB

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Ecclesiastes 3:1-22

Chapter 3Now we get into the weary, monotony of life. This has been used poetically as something that is very beautiful. "A time to love," and it's been made very beautiful, but in the Hebrew idea, it was monotony. Life is just monotonous.There is a time and a season, a time and a purpose under heaven to everything: there is a time to be born, a time to die; a time to plant, a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill, a time to heal; a time to break down, a time to build up; a... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Ecclesiastes 3:1-22

Ecclesiastes 3:1 . To every thing there is a season. The seasons of the year are four. But the Zodiac, Job 9:0., divides the times into twelve signs. In a similar manner are the labours of the husbandmen, the shepherds, and the gardeners divided: the text refers to the actions of men. Ecclesiastes 3:11 . He hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh. “Que l’ homme puisse comprendre l’ œuvre que Dieu a faite,” that man may comprehend the work... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Ecclesiastes 3:19-21

Ecclesiastes 3:19-21For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts.Man and beastIt is difficult to determine the exact object of Ecclesiastes in instituting this comparison: partly because the Hebrew is capable, in one or two places, of different translations; and partly because it is possible to take very different views of the connection between the two things which Ecclesiastes had “said in his heart.” One view which may be taken of this connection is that Ecclesiastes, having... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ecclesiastes 3:20

Ecc 3:20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Ver. 20. All are of the dust. ] See Trapp on " Gen 3:19 " read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Ecclesiastes 3:20

go: Ecclesiastes 3:21, Ecclesiastes 6:6, Ecclesiastes 9:10, Genesis 25:8, Genesis 25:17, Numbers 27:13, Job 7:9, Job 17:13, Job 30:24, Psalms 49:14 all are: Genesis 3:19, Job 10:9, Job 10:10, Job 34:15, Psalms 104:29, Daniel 12:2 Reciprocal: Genesis 2:7 - dust 2 Samuel 14:14 - we must Psalms 89:48 - What Ecclesiastes 12:7 - dust Hebrews 9:27 - as read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Ecclesiastes 3:20

All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.One place — To the earth, out of which they were taken.All turn — All their bodies. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ecclesiastes 3:20

20. All are of the dust “Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.” The perishing and dissolution of the bodies of men and beasts are visibly similar. There can be no doubt about that. And how of the spirit? read more