Ecclesiastes 6:6

WEB

⁶Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don’t all go to one place?

KJV

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

BSB

⁶even if he lives a thousand years twice over but fails to enjoy his prosperity. Do not all go to the same place?

FBV

⁶Even if this man were to live a thousand years twice over he still wouldn't be happy. Don't we all end up in the same place—the grave?

Extra References

Ecclesiastes 3:20

²⁰All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Hebrews 9:27

²⁷Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

Job 30:23

²³For I know that you will bring me to death, to the house appointed for all living.

Psalms 34:12

¹²Who is someone who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?

Job 7:7

⁷Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

⁷and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Jeremiah 17:6

⁶For he will be like a bush in the desert, and will not see when good comes, but will inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, an uninhabited salt land.

Job 1:21

²¹He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the LORD’s name.”

²⁰“No more will there be an infant who only lives a few days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child will die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old will be accursed.

Genesis 5:23-24

²³All the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty-five years. ²⁴Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.