Ecclesiastes 6:6

Bible in Basic English 1965

And though he goes on living a thousand years twice over and does not see good, are not the two going to the same place?

Cross References

Genesis 5:5

And all the years of Adam's life were nine hundred and thirty: and he came to his end.

Job 1:21

With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.

Job 30:23

For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.

Job 7:7

O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again see good.

Psalm 34:12

What man has a love of life, and a desire that his days may be increased so that he may see good?

Ecclesiastes 12:7

And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the foolish man goes walking in the dark; but still I saw that the same event comes to them all.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

All go to one place, all are of the dust, and all will be turned to dust again.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.

Ecclesiastes 6:5

Yes, it saw not the sun, and it had no knowledge; it is better with this than with the other.

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to the house of weeping, than to go to the house of feasting; because that is the end of every man, and the living will take it to their hearts.

Ecclesiastes 9:2

Because to all there is one event, to the upright man and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him who makes an offering and to him who makes no offering; as is the good so is the sinner; he who takes an oath is as he who has fear of it.

Isaiah 65:20

No longer will there be there a child whose days are cut short, or an old man whose days have not come to their full measure: for the young man at his death will be a hundred years old, and he whose life is shorter than a hundred years will seem as one cursed.

Isaiah 65:22

They will no longer be building for the use of others, or planting for others to have the fruit: for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my loved ones will have joy in full measure in the work of their hands.

Jeremiah 17:6

For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.

Hebrews 9:27

And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;