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


In Context

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

4 For it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness;

5 moreover it hath not seen nor known the sun: this hath rest rather than the other.

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

7 All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

8 For what advantage hath the wise above the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

Ecclesiastes 6:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:6Yea, though he live a thousand years twice [told,] yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

6:6even if he lives a thousand years twice over but fails to enjoy his prosperity. Do not all go to the same place?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

6:6Although he lived two thousand years, and hath not enjoyed good things: do not all make haste to one place?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

6:6yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet enjoy no good, do not all go to one place?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

6:6yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet enjoy no good: do not all go to one place?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:6Yes, though he liveth a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:6Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don't all go to one place?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

6:6And though he had lived a thousand years twice over, yet good he hath not seen; to the same place doth not every one go?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:6Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet has he seen no good: do not all go to one place?