Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Even if the other man lives a thousand years twice and does not enjoy good things—do not all go to one place?”

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 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?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אלּוּ 
'illuw 
but if, yea though
Usage: 2

he live
חיה 
Chayah 
Usage: 264

אלף 
'eleph 
Usage: 504

שׁנה שׁנה 
Shaneh (in pl. only), 
year, not translated, yearly, yearly + , year , live , old ,
Usage: 811

פּעמה פּעם 
Pa`am 
Usage: 118

ראה 
Ra'ah 
Usage: 1308

do not all go
הלך 
Halak 
go, walk, come, ...away, ...along,
Usage: 1545

to one
אחד 
'echad 
Usage: 432

References

Context Readings

Those Who Have Wealth But Do Not Enjoy It Are Pitiful

5 It never sees the sun and it never knows anything; it is better off than he. 6 Even if the other man lives a thousand years twice and does not enjoy good things—do not all go to one place?” 7 All a man’s labor is for his mouth and yet the appetite is not satisfied.

Cross References

Genesis 5:5

So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.

Genesis 5:23-24

So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.

Job 1:21

He said,
Naked I came from my mother’s womb,
And naked I shall return there.
The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away.
Blessed be the name of the Lord.”

Job 7:7

“Remember that my life is but breath;
My eye will not again see good.

Job 30:23

“For I know that You will bring me to death
And to the house of meeting for all living.

Psalm 4:6-7

Many are saying, “Who will show us any good?”
Lift up the light of Your countenance upon us, O Lord!

Psalm 34:12

Who is the man who desires life
And loves length of days that he may see good?

Ecclesiastes 3:20

All go to the same place. All came from the dust and all return to the dust.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many they be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he does not even have a proper burial, then I say, “Better the miscarriage than he,

Ecclesiastes 12:7

then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

Isaiah 65:20

“No longer will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days,
Or an old man who does not live out his days;
For the youth will die at the age of one hundred
And the one who does not reach the age of one hundred
Will be thought accursed.

Isaiah 65:22

“They will not build and another inhabit,
They will not plant and another eat;
For as the lifetime of a tree, so will be the days of My people,
And My chosen ones will wear out the work of their hands.

Jeremiah 17:6

“For he will be like a bush in the desert
And will not see when prosperity comes,
But will live in stony wastes in the wilderness,
A land of salt without inhabitant.

Hebrews 9:27

And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment,

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