Ecclesiastes 6:6 repeats 'do not all go to the same place?' — reinforcing the futility of life without enjoyment, ending in the same death.

Ecclesiastes 9:10 expands on the same 'going to the dead' idea, urging action before death's inactivity.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 explicitly repeats 'dust returns to the ground' — the same sentiment from the same book, reinforcing the fate of all.

Genesis 3:19 is the original pronouncement 'dust you are and to dust you will return' — the very source Ecclesiastes 3:20 echoes.

Job 7:9 compares death to a vanishing cloud that never returns — echoing the finality of returning to dust.

In Job 10:9, Job directly parallels the 'dust to dust' theme — he asks God to turn him to dust, echoing the common fate of all.

In Job 34:15, Elihu states all flesh returns to dust — the same universal mortality and dust return as Ecclesiastes.

Psalm 49:14 describes the proud dying like sheep, their bodies decaying in the grave — directly mirroring the return to dust.

Psalm 104:29 describes creatures dying and returning to dust when God takes their breath — identical fate.

Daniel 12:2 speaks of awakening from the dust to different destinies — contrasting Ecclesiastes' undifferentiated return to dust with resurrection and judgment.

Genesis 2:7 shows God forming man from dust — the origin that Ecclesiastes 3:20 reverses as all return to that same dust.

Genesis 25:8 describes Abraham's death as being 'gathered to his people' — a different depiction of the same end, emphasizing community in death.

Job 17:13 pictures the grave as 'home' and 'bed in darkness' — a poetic parallel to the dust-to-dust return.

Hebrews 9:27 adds judgment after death — while both affirm death's certainty, Ecclesiastes focuses on dust; Hebrews introduces a divine reckoning.

Genesis 25:17 similarly records Ishmael's death as 'gathered to his people' — another instance of the same death imagery, though less directly about dust.

Numbers 27:13 uses the same 'gathered to your people' phrase for Moses' impending death — consistent OT idiom for death.