Ecclesiastes 6:6 BSB

Ecclesiastes 6:6

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told,.... Or two thousand years, which no man ever did, nor even one thousand years; Methuselah, the oldest man, did not live so long as that; this is than twice the age of the oldest man: there is one sort of the Ethiopians, who are said (a) to live almost half space of time longer than usual, called from thence Macrobii; which Pliny (b) makes to be one hundred and forty years, which is just double the common term of life. This here is only a supposition.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

He that lives a thousand years goes to the same place with the child that does not live an hour, ch. iii. The grave is the place we shall all meet in. Whatever differences there may be in men's condition in this world, they must all die, are all under the same sentence, and, to outward appearance, their deaths are alike.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

If the miser's length of "life" be thought to raise him above the abortive, Solomon answers that long life, without enjoying real good, is but lengthened misery, and riches cannot exempt him from going whither "all go." He is fit neither for life, nor death, nor eternity.

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְאִלּ֣וּ	ve.'i.Lu	and if	H432 →
חָיָ֗ה	cha.Yah	he lived	H2421 →
אֶ֤לֶף	'E.lef	a thousand	H505 →
שָׁנִים֙	sha.Nim	years	H8141 →
פַּעֲמַ֔יִם	pa.'a.Ma.yim	two times	H6471 →
וְטוֹבָ֖ה	ve.to.Vah	and good	H2896 →
לֹ֣א	lo'	not	H3808 →
רָאָ֑ה	ra.'Ah	he saw	H7200 →
הֲלֹ֛א	ha.Lo'	¿ not	H3808 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
מָק֥וֹם	ma.Kom	a place	H4725 →
אֶחָ֖ד	'e.Chad	one	H259 →
הַכֹּ֥ל	ha.Kol	[are] <the> all	H3605 →
הוֹלֵֽךְ׃	ho.Lekh	going	H1980 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H2421chayahhe lived282×

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Hebrews 9:27
Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 5:10
  For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body, whether good or bad.
- Ecclesiastes 12:7
  before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
- Ecclesiastes 12:14
  For God will bring every deed into judgment, along with every hidden thing, whether good or evil.
- Acts 17:31
  For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”
- 2 Samuel 14:14
  For surely we will die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises ways that the banished one…
Through
Job 1:21
saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”
leads to
- Ecclesiastes 5:15
  As a man came from his mother’s womb, so he will depart again, naked as he arrived. He takes nothing for his labor to carry in his hands.
- 1 Timothy 6:7
  For we brought nothing into the world, so we cannot carry anything out of it.
Through
Ecclesiastes 12:7
before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
leads to
- Genesis 3:19
  By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.

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King Solomon in Old Age — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Ecclesiastes

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Ecclesiastes