Ecclesiastes 6:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Even though he should live a thousand years twice over yet enjoy no good—do not all go to one place?

Cross References

Genesis 5:5

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

Job 1:21

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

Job 30:23

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

Job 7:7

“Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good.

Psalm 34:12

Which of you desires life and covets many days to enjoy good?

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

Ecclesiastes 2:14

The wise have eyes in their head, but fools walk in darkness. Yet I perceived that the same fate befalls all of them.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

All go to one place, all are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

A man may father a hundred children and live many years, but however many are the days of his years, if he does not enjoy life’s good things or has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

Ecclesiastes 6:5

moreover, it has not seen the sun or known anything, yet it finds rest rather than he.

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of everyone, and the living will lay it to heart.

Ecclesiastes 9:2

is vanity, since the same fate comes to all, to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil, to the clean and the unclean, to those who sacrifice and those who do not sacrifice. As are the good, so are the sinners; those who swear are like those who shun an oath.

Isaiah 65:20

No more shall there be in it an infant who lives but a few days or an old person who does not live out a lifetime, for one who dies at a hundred years will be considered a youth, and one who falls short of a hundred will be considered accursed.

Isaiah 65:22

They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat, for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

Jeremiah 17:6

They shall be like a shrub in the desert and shall not see when relief comes. They shall live in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once and after that the judgment,