Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet enjoy no good, do not all go to one place?
New American Standard Bible
Even if the other man lives a thousand years twice and does not
King James Version
Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?
Holman Bible
And if he lives a thousand years twice, but does not experience happiness, do not both go to the same place?
International Standard Version
Even if he lives a thousand years twice over without experiencing the best aren't all of them going to the same place?
A Conservative Version
Yea, though he lives a thousand years twice told, and yet enjoys no good, do not all go to one place?
Amplified
Even if the other man lives a thousand years twice over and yet has seen no good and experienced no enjoyment—do not both go to one place [the grave]?”
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?
Darby Translation
Yea, though he live twice a thousand years, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?
Julia Smith Translation
And although he lived a thousand years twice, and he saw not good. Did not all go to one place?
King James 2000
Yea, though he lives a thousand years twice over, yet he has seen no good: do not all go to one place?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Even if a man lives a thousand years twice, if he does not enjoy {prosperity}, {both suffer the same fate}!
Modern King James verseion
Yea, though he live twice a thousand years, yet he has seen no good. Do not all go to one place?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Yea, though he lived two thousand years, yet hath he no good life. Come not all to one place?
NET Bible
if he should live a thousand years twice, yet does not enjoy his prosperity. For both of them die!
New Heart English Bible
Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, do not all go to one place?
The Emphasized Bible
Even though one hath lived a thousand years twice told, yet, good, hath he not seen, - is it not, unto one place, that, all, are going?
Webster
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?
Youngs 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?
Topics
Interlinear
Shaneh (in pl. only),
Pa`am
Ra'ah
References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 6:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Those Who Have Wealth But Do Not Enjoy It Are Pitiful
5 moreover it hath not seen the sun nor known it; this hath rest rather than the other: 6 yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet enjoy no good, do not all go to one place? 7 All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
Names
Cross References
Genesis 5:5
And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
Genesis 5:23-24
and all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
Job 1:21
and he said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: Jehovah gave, and Jehovah hath taken away; blessed be the name of Jehovah.
Job 7:7
Oh remember that my life is a breath: Mine eye shall no more see good.
Job 30:23
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.
Psalm 4:6-7
Many there are that say, Who will show us any good? Jehovah, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
Psalm 34:12
What man is he that desireth life, And loveth many days, that he may see good?
Ecclesiastes 3:20
All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:
Ecclesiastes 12:7
and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.
Isaiah 65:20
There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days; for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.
Isaiah 65:22
They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
Jeremiah 17:6
For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.
Hebrews 9:27
And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this cometh judgment;