Parallel Verses
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?
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?
American Standard Version
yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet enjoy 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]?”
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 Yes, it saw not the sun, and it had no knowledge; it is better with this than with the other. 6 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? 7 All the work of man is for his mouth, and still he has a desire for food.
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Cross References
Genesis 5:5
And all the years of Adam's life were nine hundred and thirty: and he came to his end.
Genesis 5:23-24
And all the years of Enoch's life were three hundred and sixty-five:
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 7:7
O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again see good.
Job 30:23
For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.
Psalm 4:6-7
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?
Ecclesiastes 3:20
All go to one place, all are of the dust, and all will be turned to dust again.
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.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.
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.
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.
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.
Hebrews 9:27
And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;