"Yea, though he live a thousand years twice {told}, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?" — Ecclesiastes 6:6

Ecclesiastes 6:6 · KJV

“Yea, though he live a thousand years twice {told}, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?”

— Ecclesiastes 6:6

Verse 5

Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known {any thing}: this hath more rest than the other.

Verse 7

All the labour of man {is} for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. {appetite: Heb. soul}

Ecclesiastes 6 — Context

For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known {any thing}: this hath more rest than the other.

Yea, though he live a thousand years twice {told}, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

All the labour of man {is} for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. {appetite: Heb. soul}

For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

Cross References

Hebrews 9:27

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

Ecclesiastes 3:20

All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Job 30:23

For I know {that} thou wilt bring me {to} death, and {to} the house appointed for all living.

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 an hundred years old; but the sinner {being} an 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 {are} the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. {shall long...: Heb. shall make them continue long, or, shall wear out}

Genesis 5:5

And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man beget an hundred {children}, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also {that} he have no burial; I say, {that} an untimely birth {is} better than he.

Job 7:7

O remember that my life {is} wind: mine eye shall no more see good. {shall...: Heb. shall not return} {see: to see, that is, to enjoy}