So all the days that Aḏam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.
Ecclesiastes 6:6 - The Scriptures 2009 And though he lives a thousand years twice over, yet he shall not see goodness. Do not all go to one place? Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Even though he lives a thousand years twice over and yet has seen no good and experienced no enjoyment–do not all go to one place [the place of the dead]? American Standard Version (1901) yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet enjoy no good, do not all go to one place? Common English Bible who live a thousand years twice over but don’t enjoy life’s good things. Isn’t everyone heading to the same destination? Catholic Public Domain Version Even if he were to live for two thousand years, and yet not thoroughly enjoy what is good, does not each one hurry on to the same place? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Although he lived two thousand years, and hath not enjoyed good things: do not all make haste to one place? |
So all the days that Aḏam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.
And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I return there. יהוה has given, and יהוה has taken away. Blessed be the Name of יהוה.”
For I have known that You bring me to death, and to the house of appointment for all living.
Remember that my life is a breath! My eye is never again to see good.
Mem Who is the man who desires life, Who loves many days, in order to see good?
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to Elohim who gave it.
The wise one’s eyes are in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And I also knew that one event befalls them all.
All are going to one place – all came from the dust, and all return to dust.
If a man brings forth a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his being is not satisfied with goodness, or indeed he has no burial-place, I say that a premature birth is better than he,
It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for that is the end of all men. And the living take it to heart.
It is the same for all: One event to the righteous and to the wrong; to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean; and to the one slaughtering and to the one not slaughtering. As is the good one, so is the sinner; the one swearing as the one fearing an oath.
“No more is an infant from there going to live but a few days, nor an old man who does not complete his days, for the youth dies one hundred years old, but the sinner being one hundred years old shall be lightly esteemed.
“They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat. For the days of My people are going to be as the days of a tree, and My chosen ones outlive the work of their hands.
“For he shall be like a shrub in the desert, and not see when good comes, and shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land that is not inhabited.