Ecclesiastes 6:6
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“even if he lives a thousand years twice over but fails to enjoy his prosperity. Do not all go to the same place?”
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“even if he lives a thousand years twice over but fails to enjoy his prosperity. Do not all go to the same place?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?”
King James Version · Public Domain“yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet enjoy no good, do not all go to one place?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And though he had lived a thousand years twice over, yet good he hath not seen; to the same place doth not every one go?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ecclesiastes 6:6 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 5:5So Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.
- Genesis 5:23So Enoch lived a total of 365 years.
- Job 1:21saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”
- Job 7:7Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.
- Job 30:23Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
- Psalms 4:6Many ask, “Who can show us the good?” Shine the light of Your face upon us, O LORD.
- Psalms 34:12Who is the man who delights in life, who desires to see good days?
- Ecclesiastes 3:20All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.
- Ecclesiastes 6:3A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
- Ecclesiastes 12:7before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
- Isaiah 65:20No longer will a nursing infant live but a few days, or an old man fail to live out his years. For the youth will die at a hundred years, and he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.
- Isaiah 65:22No longer will they build houses for others to inhabit, nor plant for others to eat. For as is the lifetime of a tree, so will be the days of My people, and My chosen ones will fully enjoy the work of their hands.
- Jeremiah 17:6He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.
- Hebrews 9:27Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,
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