Ecclesiastes 6:6

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

He might live 2000 years. But if he does not enjoy life, then the baby who was born dead has found the easiest way to the same end.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 3:20

The bodies of people and animals end the same way. They came from the earth, and, in the end, they will go back to the earth.

Hebrews 9:27

Everyone must die once. Then they are judged.

Job 30:23

I know you will lead me to my death, to that place where all the living must go.

Jeremiah 17:6

They are like a bush in a desert where no one lives. It is in a hot and dry land. It is in bad soil. That bush does not know about the good things that God can give.

Isaiah 65:22

Never again will one person build a house and another person live there. Never again will one person plant a garden and another eat the fruit from it. My people will live as long as the trees. My chosen people will get full use of whatever they make.

Isaiah 65:20

In that city there will never be a baby who lives only a few days, and every older person will live for a long, long time. A person who lives 100 years will be called young. And whoever doesn’t live that long will be considered cursed.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

Your body came from the earth. And when you die, it will return to the earth. But your spirit came from God, and when you die, it will return to him.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

A man might live a long time and have 100 children. But if he is not satisfied with those good things, and if no one remembers him after his death, I say that a baby who dies at birth is better off than that man.

Psalm 34:12

Do you want to enjoy life? Do you want to have many happy days?

Job 7:7

God, remember, my life is like a breath. I will not get a second chance to enjoy it.

Job 1:21

and said, “When I was born into this world, I was naked and had nothing. When I die and leave this world, I will be naked and have nothing. The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away. Praise the name of the Lord!”

Genesis 5:5

So Adam lived a total of 930 years; then he died.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

Wise people use their minds like eyes to see where they are going. But for fools, it is as if they are walking in the dark. I also saw that fools and wise people both end the same way.

Ecclesiastes 6:5

The baby never saw the sun and never knew anything. But the baby finds more rest than the man who never enjoyed what God gave him.

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to a funeral than to a party, because everyone must die, and the living need to remember this.

Ecclesiastes 9:2

But, there is one thing that happens to everyone—we all die! Death comes to good people and bad people. Death comes to those who are pure and to those who are not pure. Death comes to those who give sacrifices and to those who don’t give sacrifices. Good people will die just as sinners do. Those who make promises to God will die just as those who are afraid to make those promises.