Ecclesiastes 6:6

New American Bible - revised edition

Should such a one live twice a thousand years and not enjoy those goods, do not both go to the same place?

Cross References

Genesis 5:5

The whole lifetime of Adam was nine hundred and thirty years; then he died.

Job 1:21

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

Job 30:23

Indeed I know that you will return me to death to the house destined for everyone alive.

Job 7:7

Remember that my life is like the wind; my eye will not see happiness again.

Psalm 34:12

Come, children, listen to me; I will teach you fear of the Lord.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

Ecclesiastes 2:14

Wise people have eyes in their heads, but fools walk in darkness. Yet I knew that the same lot befalls both.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

Both go to the same place; both were made from the dust, and to the dust they both return.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

Should one have a hundred children and live many years, no matter to what great age, still if one has not the full benefit of those goods, I proclaim that the child born dead, even if left unburied, is more fortunate.

Ecclesiastes 6:5

though it has not seen the sun or known anything, yet the dead child has more peace.

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting, For that is the end of every mortal, and the living should take it to heart.

Ecclesiastes 9:2

Everything is the same for everybody: the same lot for the just and the wicked, for the good, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who offers sacrifice and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who takes an oath, so it is for the one who fears an oath.

Isaiah 65:20

No longer shall there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, nor anyone who does not live a full lifetime; One who dies at a hundred years shall be considered a youth, and one who falls short of a hundred shall be thought accursed.

Isaiah 65:22

They shall not build and others live there; they shall not plant and others eat. As the years of a tree, so the years of my people; and my chosen ones shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

Jeremiah 17:6

He is like a barren bush in the wasteland that enjoys no change of season, But stands in lava beds in the wilderness, a land, salty and uninhabited.

Hebrews 9:27

Just as it is appointed that human beings die once, and after this the judgment,