Ecclesiastes 6:6 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁶ Even though he should live a thousand years twice told, yet enjoy no good—do not all go to the one place?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ 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

⁶ 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)

⁶ yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet enjoy no good, do not all go to one place?

Common English Bible

⁶ 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

⁶ 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

⁶ Although he lived two thousand years, and hath not enjoyed good things: do not all make haste to one place?

Ecclesiastes 6:6 Cross References

Genesis 5:5

Thus all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.

Job 1:21

And he said, “Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return; the Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”

Job 30:23

Yea, I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

Job 7:7

“Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good.

Psalm 34:12

What man is there who desires life, and covets many days, that he may enjoy good?

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

Ecclesiastes 2:14

The wise man has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness; and yet I perceived that one fate comes to all of them.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

All go to one place; all are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man begets a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but he does not enjoy life's good things, and also has no burial, I say that an untimely birth is better off than he.

Ecclesiastes 6:5

moreover it has not seen the sun or known anything; yet it finds rest rather than he.

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for this is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to heart.

Ecclesiastes 9:2

since one fate comes to all, to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil, to the clean and the unclean, to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As is the good man, so is the sinner; and he who swears is as he who shuns an oath.

Isaiah 65:20

No more shall there be in it an infant that lives but a few days, or an old man who does not fill out his days, for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.

Isaiah 65:22

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.

Jeremiah 17:6

He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for men to die once, and after that comes judgment,