Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Bible References

Though

Genesis 5:5
So Adam lived nine hundred and thirty years in all, and he died.
Isaiah 65:22

“They will not build and another occupy;
They will not plant and another eat [the fruit].
For as the lifetime of a tree, so will be the days of My people,
And My chosen [people] will fully enjoy [and long make use of] the work of their hands.

Yet

Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many they may be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he is not respected and is not given a proper burial [he is not laid to rest in the sepulcher of his fathers], then I say, “Better the miscarriage than he,
Job 7:7

“Remember that my life is but breath [a puff of wind, a sigh];
My eye will not see good again.
Psalm 4:6

Many are saying, “Oh, that we might see some good!”
Lift up the light of Your face upon us, O Lord.
Psalm 34:12

Who is the man who desires life
And loves many days, that he may see good?
Isaiah 65:20

“No longer shall there be in it an infant who lives only a few days,
Or an old man who does not finish his days;
For the youth who dies at the age of a hundred,
And the one who does not reach the age of a hundred
Will be thought of as accursed.
Jeremiah 17:6

“For he will be like a shrub in the [parched] desert;
And shall not see prosperity when it comes,
But shall live in the rocky places of the wilderness,
In an uninhabited salt land.

Do

Ecclesiastes 3:20
All go to the same place. All came from the dust and all return to the dust.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
then the dust [out of which God made man’s body] will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
Job 1:21
He said,

“Naked (without possessions) I came [into this world] from my mother’s womb,
And naked I will return there.
The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away;
Blessed be the name of the Lord.”
Job 30:23

“For I know that You will bring me to death
And to the house of meeting [appointed] for all the living.
Hebrews 9:27
And just as it is appointed and destined for all men to die once and after this [comes certain] judgment,