“and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Ecclesiastes 12 contains 14 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.