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


In Context

3 If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better than he.

4 For he came in vain, and goeth to darkness, and his name shall be wholly forgotten.

5 He hath not seen the sun, nor known the distance of good and evil:

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

7 All the labour of man is for his mouth, but his soul shall not be filled.

8 What hath the wise man more than the fool? and what the poor man, but to go thither, where there is life?

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 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:6Yea, though he live twice a thousand years, yet hath he seen 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?