American Standard Version
"yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet enjoy no good, do not all go to one place? "
— Ecclesiastes 6:6, American Standard Version
“Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?”
“Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don't all go to one place?”
“if he should live a thousand years twice, yet does not enjoy his prosperity. For both of them die!”
“Although he lived two thousand years, and hath not enjoyed good things: do not all make haste to one place?”
“And though he goes on living a thousand years twice over and does not see good, are not the two going to the same place?”
“Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?”
If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are 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:
for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;
moreover it hath not seen the sun nor known it; this hath rest rather than the other:
yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet enjoy no good, do not all go to one place?
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? or what hath the poor man, that knoweth how to walk before the living?
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and a striving after wind.