◄ Ecclesiastes 6:6 ►
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Good News Translation
more so than the man who never enjoys life, though he may live two thousand years. After all, both of them are going to the same place.

New Revised Standard Version
Even though he should live a thousand years twice over, yet enjoy no good—do not all go to one place?

Contemporary English Version
even if you live two thousand years and don't enjoy life. As you know, we all end up in the same place.

New American Bible
Should such a one live twice a thousand years and not enjoy those goods, do not both go to the same place?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Although he lived two thousand years, and hath not enjoyed good things: do not all make haste to one place?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Although he lived two thousand years, and hath not enjoyed good things: do not all make haste to one place?

though

Genesis 5:5,23,24 And all the time that Adam lived, came to nine hundred and thirty years, and he died. . . .

Isaiah 65:22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree, so shall be the days of my people, and the works of their hands shall be of long continuance.

yet

Ecclesiastes 6:3 If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better than he.

Job 7:7 Remember that my life is but wind, and my eye shall not return to see good things.

Psalm 4:6,7 The light of thy countenance, O Lord, is signed upon us: thou hast given gladness in my heart. . . .

Psalm 34:12 Who is the man that desireth life: who liveth to see good days?

Isaiah 65:20 There shall no more be an infant of days there, nor an old man that shall not fill up his days: for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.

Jeremiah 17:6 For he shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see when good shall come: but he shall dwell in dryness in the desert in a salt land, and not inhabited.

do

Ecclesiastes 3:20 And all things go to one place: of earth they were made, and into earth they return together.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 And the dust return into its earth, from whence it was, and the spirit return to God, who gave it.

Job 1:21 And said: Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away: as it hath pleased the Lord, so is it done: blessed be the name of the Lord.

Job 30:23 I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is appointed for every one that liveth.

Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment:

Context
The Futility of Life
…5He hath not seen the sun, nor known the distance of good and evil: 6Although he lived two thousand years, and hath not enjoyed good things: do not all make haste to one place?7All the labour of man is for his mouth, but his soul shall not be filled.…
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 2:14
The eyes of a wise man are in his head: the fool walketh in darkness: and I learned that they were to die both alike.

Ecclesiastes 6:5
He hath not seen the sun, nor known the distance of good and evil:

Ecclesiastes 7:2
It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting: for in that we are put in mind of the end of all, and the living thinketh what is to come.

Ecclesiastes 9:2
But all things are kept uncertain for the time to come, because all things equally happen to the just and to the wicked, to the good and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him that offereth victims, and to him that despiseth sacrifices. As the good is, so also is the sinner: as the perjured, so he also that sweareth truth.

Ecclesiastes 6:5
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