Parallel Verses
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?
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]?”
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 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 Also he has not seen the sun, nor known anything. This one has more rest than the other. 6 Yea, though he live twice a thousand years, yet he has seen 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 and sixty-five years.
Job 1:21
And he said, I came naked out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. Jehovah gave, and Jehovah has taken away. Blessed be the name of Jehovah.
Job 7:7
Remember that my life is a breath; my eye shall no more see good.
Job 30:23
For I know that You will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Psalm 4:6-7
There are many who say, Who will show us any good? Jehovah, lift up the light of Your face on us.
Psalm 34:12
Who is the man that desires life, and loves days, that he may see good?
Ecclesiastes 3:20
All go to one place; all are of the dust, and all return to dust again.
Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man fathers a hundred, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, and his soul is not filled with good, and also is for him no burial; I say, a miscarriage is better than he.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
then the dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it.
Isaiah 65:20
There will not be an infant, nor an old man that has not filled his days. For the child will die a hundred years old; but the sinner who is a hundred years old will be despised.
Isaiah 65:22
They will not build, and another live in them; they will not plant, and another eat. For like the days of a tree are the days of My people, and My elect will long enjoy the work of their hands.
Jeremiah 17:6
For he shall be like a juniper in the desert, and shall not see when good comes. But he shall live in the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land that is not inhabited.
Hebrews 9:27
And as it is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment,