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?
Though
Bible References
Though
Genesis 5:5
And all the years of Adam's life were nine hundred and thirty: and he came to his end.
Isaiah 65:22
They will no longer be building for the use of others, or planting for others to have the fruit: for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my loved ones will have joy in full measure in the work of their hands.
Yet
Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.
Job 7:7
O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again see good.
Psalm 4:6
There are numbers who say, Who will do us any good? the light of his face has gone from us.
Psalm 34:12
What man has a love of life, and a desire that his days may be increased so that he may see good?
Isaiah 65:20
No longer will there be there a child whose days are cut short, or an old man whose days have not come to their full measure: for the young man at his death will be a hundred years old, and he whose life is shorter than a hundred years will seem as one cursed.
Jeremiah 17:6
For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.
Do
Ecclesiastes 3:20
All go to one place, all are of the dust, and all will be turned to dust again.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.
Job 1:21
With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.
Job 30:23
For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.
Hebrews 9:27
And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;