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


In Context

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

4 for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;

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

6 yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet enjoy 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 more than the fool? or what hath the poor man, 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 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 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?