Thus all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, and he died.
Ecclesiastes 6:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Even though he should live a thousand years twice over yet enjoy no good—do not all go to one place? More versionsKing 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? |
Thus all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, and he died.
He said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there; the Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”
I know that you will bring me to death, to the house appointed for all living.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it.
The wise have eyes in their head, but fools walk in darkness. Yet I perceived that the same fate befalls all of them.
A man may father a hundred children and live many years, but however many are the days of his years, if he does not enjoy life’s good things or has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
moreover, it has not seen the sun or known anything, yet it finds rest rather than he.
It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of everyone, and the living will lay it to heart.
is vanity, since the same fate comes to all, to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil, to the clean and the unclean, to those who sacrifice and those who do not sacrifice. As are the good, so are the sinners; those who swear are like those who shun an oath.
No more shall there be in it an infant who lives but a few days or an old person who does not live out a lifetime, for one who dies at a hundred years will be considered a youth, and one who falls short of a hundred will be considered accursed.
They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat, for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
They shall be like a shrub in the desert and shall not see when relief comes. They shall live in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.
And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once and after that the judgment,