Ecclesiastes 6:6
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New International Version (©1984)
even if he lives a thousand years twice over but fails to enjoy his prosperity. Do not all go to the same place?

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Even if the other man lives a thousand years twice and does not enjoy good things-- do not all go to one place?"

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Even if the rich person lives two thousand years without experiencing anything good-don't we all go to the same place?

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

American King James Version
Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet has he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

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

Bible in Basic English
And though he goes on living a thousand years twice over and does not see good, are not the two going to the same place?

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

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

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

Webster's Bible Translation
Yes, though he liveth a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

World English Bible
Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don't all go to one place?

Young's Literal Translation
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?

Geneva Study Bible

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

Wesley's Notes

6:6 Tho' he live - Wherein he seems to have a privilege above an untimely birth. Seen - He hath enjoyed no comfort in it, and therefore long life is rather a curse, than a blessing to him. All - Whether their lives be long or short. Go - To the grave.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

6. If the miser's length of "life" be thought to raise him above the abortive, Solomon answers that long life, without enjoying real good, is but lengthened misery, and riches cannot exempt him from going whither "all go." He is fit neither for life, nor death, nor eternity.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

6:1-6 A man often has all he needs for outward enjoyment; yet the Lord leaves him so to covetousness or evil dispositions, that he makes no good or comfortable use of what he has. By one means or other his possessions come to strangers; this is vanity, and an evil disease. A numerous family was a matter of fond desire and of high honour among the Hebrews; and long life is the desire of mankind in general. Even with these additions a man may not be able to enjoy his riches, family, and life. Such a man, in his passage through life, seems to have been born for no end or use. And he who has entered on life only for one moment, to quit it the next, has a preferable lot to him who has lived long, but only to suffer.


Ecclesiastes 2:14 The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I know that one fate befalls them both. (NASB ©1995)

Enjoy Fails Goes Good Live Prosperity Thousand Twice


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

though Ge 5:5,23,24 Isa 65:22

yet 6:3 Job 7:7 Ps 4:6,7 34:12 Isa 65:20 Jer 17:6

do 3:20 12:7 Job 1:21 30:23 Heb 9:27

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