Ecclesiastes 6:6

New International Version

even if he lives a thousand years twice over but fails to enjoy his prosperity. Do not all go to the same place?

Cross References

Genesis 5:5

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

Job 1:21

and said: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will depart. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised.”

Job 30:23

I know you will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.

Job 7:7

Remember, O God, that my life is but a breath; my eyes will never see happiness again.

Psalm 34:12

Whoever of you loves life and desires to see many good days,

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

The wise have eyes in their heads, while the fool walks in the darkness; but I came to realize that the same fate overtakes them both.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

A man may have a hundred children and live many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he cannot enjoy his prosperity and does not receive proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

Ecclesiastes 6:5

Though it never saw the sun or knew anything, it has more rest than does that man—

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for death is the destiny of everyone; the living should take this to heart.

Ecclesiastes 9:2

All share a common destiny—the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. As it is with the good, so with the sinful; as it is with those who take oaths, so with those who are afraid to take them.

Isaiah 65:20

“Never again will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not live out his years; the one who dies at a hundred will be thought a mere child; the one who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.

Isaiah 65:22

No longer will they build houses and others live in them, or plant and others eat. For as the days of a tree, so will be the days of my people; my chosen ones will long enjoy the work of their hands.

Jeremiah 17:6

That person will be like a bush in the wastelands; they will not see prosperity when it comes. They will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.

Hebrews 9:27

Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment,