Ecclesiastes 6:6
Even though one hath lived a thousand years twice told, yet, good, hath he not seen,—is it not, unto one place, that, all, are going?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
5even the sun, it never saw, nor aught did it know,—more quietness, hath this than the other.
7All the toil of man, is for his mouth,—though, even the desire, is not satisfied!
Cross References
Genesis 5:5So all the days of Adam which he lived, were nine hundred and thirty years,—and he died.
Job 1:21and said—Naked came I forth from the womb of my mother, and naked must I return thither, Yahweh, gave, and, Yahweh, hath taken away,—The name of Yahweh be blessed!
Job 30:23For I know that, unto death, thou wilt bring me back, even unto the house of meeting for every one living.
Psalms 34:12Who is the man that desireth life, Loving days, that he may see good?
Ecclesiastes 6:3Though a man should beget a hundred children, and live, many years, so that many should be the days of his years but, his own soul, should not be satisfied with the good, and he should not even have, a burial, I said, Better than he, is an untimely birth!
Isaiah 65:20There shall be thenceforward, no more, A suckling of a few days, or an elder Who filleth not up his days,—But, a youth a hundred years old, may die, Yea a sinner a hundred years old, shall 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 →