Ecclesiastes 6:6

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?

Cross References

Genesis 5:5

And all the time that passed while Adam lived was nine hundred and thirty years, and then he died.

Job 1:21

and he said, "Naked I departed from my mother's womb, and naked I shall return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away. Just as it pleased the Lord, so has it been done. Blessed be the name of the Lord."

Job 30:23

I know that you will hand me over to death, where a home has been established for all the living.

Job 7:7

Remember that my life is wind, and my eye will not return to see good things.

Psalm 34:12

They repaid me evil for good, to the deprivation of my soul.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to its earth, from which it was, and the spirit returns to God, who granted it.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

The eyes of a wise man are in his head. A foolish man walks in darkness. Yet I learned that one would pass away like the other.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

And all things continue on to one place; for from the earth they were made, and unto the earth they shall return together.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man were to produce one hundred children, and to live for many years, and to attain to an age of many days, and if his soul were to make no use of the goods of his resources, and if he were lacking even a burial: concerning such a man, I declare that a miscarried child is better than he.

Ecclesiastes 6:5

He has not seen the sun, nor recognized the difference between good and evil.

Ecclesiastes 7:2

A good name is better than precious ointments, and a day of death is better than a day of birth.

Ecclesiastes 9:2

But all things in the future remain uncertain, because all things happen equally to the just and to the impious, to the good and to the bad, to the pure and to the impure, to those who offer sacrifices and to those who despise sacrifices. As the good are, so also are sinners. As those who commit perjury are, so also are those who swear to the truth.

Isaiah 65:20

There will no longer be an infant of only a few days there, nor an elder who does not complete his days. For a mere child dies at a hundred years of age, and a sinner of a hundred years will be accursed.

Isaiah 65:22

They will not build, so that another may inhabit. They will not plant, so that another may eat. For according to the days of a tree, so will be the days of my people. And the works of their hands will be long-standing.

Jeremiah 17:6

For he will be like a saltcedar tree in the desert. And he will not perceive it, when what is good has arrived. Instead, he will live in dryness, in a desert, in a land of salt, which is uninhabitable.

Hebrews 9:27

And in the same manner as it has been appointed for men to die one time, and after this, to be judged,