Ecclesiastes 6:6

Modern English Version

Though the man may live a thousand years twice over, yet does not enjoy the good things, do not all go to the same place?

Cross References

Genesis 5:5

So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.

Job 1:21

He said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”

Job 30:23

For I know that You will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

Job 7:7

Oh, remember that my life is a breath! My eye will never again see good.

Psalm 34:12

Who is the man who desires life, and loves many days that he may see good?

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

Ecclesiastes 2:14

A wise man has eyes in his head, but the fool continues in darkness. Moreover, I experienced that each one experiences the same event—death.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

All go to one place; everything came from dust, and returns to dust.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man is a father to a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are numerous, but his life is not satisfied with the many good things, and there is not one of his children to eventually bury him, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he —

Ecclesiastes 6:5

Moreover, he has not observed the sun or experienced the sun; yet this child finds rest rather than he.

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to a house of mourning for a funeral than to go to a house of feasting for a celebration; for this is the destiny of all humanity; and the living should consider this in their heart.

Ecclesiastes 9:2

The same fate comes to all; there is one fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the evil, for the clean and unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not sacrifice. As is the good person, So is the sinful person; As it is for the one who takes an oath, So also for the one who fears an oath.

Isaiah 65:20

There shall no longer be an infant who lives only a few days, nor an old man who has not filled out his days. For the child shall die at one hundred years old, but the sinner being one 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 are the days of My people, and My chosen ones shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

Jeremiah 17:6

For he will be like a bush in the desert and will not see when good comes, but will inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

Hebrews 9:27

As it is appointed for men to die once, but after this comes the judgment,