Ecclesiastes 6:6

New Century Version

Even if he lives two thousand years, he doesn’t enjoy the good God gives him. Everyone is going to the same place.

Cross References

Genesis 5:5

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

Job 1:21

He said: “I was naked when I was born, and I will be naked when I die. The Lord gave these things to me, and he has taken them away. Praise the name of the Lord.”

Job 30:23

I know you will bring me down to death, to the place where all living people must go.

Job 7:7

Remember, God, that my life is only a breath. My eyes will never see happy times again.

Psalm 34:12

You must do these things to enjoy life and have many happy days.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

You will turn back into the dust of the earth again, but your spirit will return to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

Wise people see where they are going, but fools walk around in the dark. Yet I saw that both wise and foolish people end the same way.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

Both end up the same way; both came from dust and both will go back to dust.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

A man might have a hundred children and live a long time, but what good is it if he can’t enjoy the good God gives him or have a proper burial? I say a baby born dead is better off than he is.

Ecclesiastes 6:5

That baby never saw the sun and never knew anything, but it finds more rest than that man.

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to a funeral than to a party. We all must die, and everyone living should think about this.

Ecclesiastes 9:2

Good and bad people end up the same— those who are right and those who are wrong, those who are good and those who are evil, those who are clean and those who are unclean, those who sacrifice and those who do not. The same things happen to a good person as happen to a sinner, to a person who makes promises to God and to one who does not.

Isaiah 65:20

There will never be a baby from that city who lives only a few days. And there will never be an older person who doesn’t have a long life. A person who lives a hundred years will be called young, and a person who dies before he is a hundred will be thought of as a sinner.

Isaiah 65:22

No more will one person build a house and someone else live there. One person will not plant a garden and someone else eat its fruit. My people will live a long time, as trees live long. My chosen people will live there and enjoy the things they make.

Jeremiah 17:6

They are like a bush in a desert that grows in a land where no one lives, a hot and dry land with bad soil. They don’t know about the good things God can give.

Hebrews 9:27

Just as everyone must die once and then be judged,