Ecclesiastes 6:6 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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

And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

Job 1:21

and he 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; blessed be the name of the LORD.

Job 30:23

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

Job 7:7

Oh remember that my life is wind: Mine eye shall no more see good.

Psalm 34:12

What man is he that desireth life, And loveth many days, that he may see good?

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

Ecclesiastes 2:14

The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walketh in darkness: and yet I perceived that one event happeneth to them all.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

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

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man beget an hundred children and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:

Ecclesiastes 6:5

moreover it hath not seen the sun nor known it; this hath rest rather than the other:

Ecclesiastes 7:2

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 will lay it to his heart.

Ecclesiastes 9:2

All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

Isaiah 65:20

There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old, and the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.

Isaiah 65:22

They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

Jeremiah 17:6

For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

Hebrews 9:27

And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this cometh judgement;