Ecclesiastes 6:6 - Easy To Read Version

⁶ That man might live 2,000 years. But if he does not enjoy life, then the baby that was born dead has found the easiest way to the same end. {\cf2\super [28]}

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Even though he lives a thousand years twice over and yet has seen no good and experienced no enjoyment–do not all go to one place [the place of the dead]?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet enjoy no good, do not all go to one place?

Common English Bible

⁶ who live a thousand years twice over but don’t enjoy life’s good things. Isn’t everyone heading to the same destination?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ Even if he were to live for two thousand years, and yet not thoroughly enjoy what is good, does not each one hurry on to the same place?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ Although he lived two thousand years, and hath not enjoyed good things: do not all make haste to one place?

Ecclesiastes 6:6 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 5:5

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

Job 1:21

He said:

Job 30:23

I know you will lead me to my death.\par Every living person must die.\par

Job 7:7

God, remember, my life is only a breath.\par I will never see anything good again.\par

Psalm 34:12

If a person loves life\par and wants to live a good, long life,\par

Ecclesiastes 12:7

Your body came from the earth.\par And when you die,\par your body will go back to the earth.\par But your spirit came from God.\par And when you die,\par your spirit will go back to God.\par

Ecclesiastes 2:14

It is like this: A wise man uses his mind like eyes to see where he is going. But a fool is like someone walking in the dark.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

The bodies of people and animals end the same way. They came from the earth, and in the end they will go back to the earth.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

A person might live a long time. And that person might have 100 children. But if that person is not satisfied with those good things, and if no one remembers him after his death, then I say that a baby that dies at birth is better off than that man.

Ecclesiastes 6:5

That baby never saw the sun. That baby never knew anything. But that baby finds more rest than the man that never enjoyed the things God gave him.

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is even better to go to a funeral\par than to a party.\par Why? Because all people must die,\par and every person alive\par should accept this.\par

Ecclesiastes 9:2

But, there is one thing that happens to everyone—we all die! Death comes to good people and bad people. Death comes to people that are pure and to people that are not pure. Death comes to people that give sacrifices {\cf2\super [35]} and to people that do not give sacrifices. A good man will die just like a sinner. A person that makes special promises to God will die just like a person that is afraid to make those promises.

Isaiah 65:20

There will never be a child from that city,\par that is born and lives only a few days.\par No person from that city will die\par after only a short life.\par Every child will live a long life,\par and every older person will live\par for a long, long time.\par A person that lives 100 years\par will be called young.\par And people will think a person was cursed\par if he does not live to be 100 years old.\par

Isaiah 65:22

Never again will\par one person build a house\par and another person live there.\par Never again will\par one person plant a garden\par and another person eat the fruit from it.\par

Jeremiah 17:6

Those people are like a bush in a desert.\par That bush is in a land where no people live.\par That bush is in a hot and dry land.\par That bush is in a bad soil.\par That bush does not know\par about the good things that God can give.\par

Hebrews 9:27

Every person must die once. After a person dies, he is judged.