Ecclesiastes 6:6
Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don’t all go to one place?
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In Context
5Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it. This has rest rather than the other.
7All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
Cross References
Genesis 5:5All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, then he died.
Job 1:21He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the LORD’s name.”
Job 30:23For I know that you will bring me to death, to the house appointed for all living.
Psalms 34:12Who is someone who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?
Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better than he;
Isaiah 65:20“No more will there be an infant who only lives a few days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child will die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old will be accursed.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 6:2-7
The Miseries of Covetousness. 1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men: 2 A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease. 3 If a man beget a 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… Read the whole commentary →