All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return.
Solomon is still showing that every thing in this world, without piety and the fear of God, is vanity. Take away religion, and there is nothing valuable among men, nothing for the sake of which a wise man would think it worth while to live in this world.
Commenting on Ecclesiastes 3:16-22
All go unto one place,.... The earth (w) from whence they came; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again; Adam's body was made of the dust of the earth, and so all his posterity, all of them; in which they agree with beasts, who are made of the dust also; and, when they die, return to it; see Gen 2:7. (w) "Magna parens terra est", Ovid.
Ecc 3:20 “All goes hence to one place; all has sprung out of the dust, and all returns to the dust again.” The “one place” is (as at Ecc 6:6) the earth, the great graveyard which finally receives all the living when dead. The art. of the first העפר is that denoting species; the art. of the second is retrospective: to the dust whence he sprang (cf.