Ecclesiastes 6:6

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Ecclesiastes 6:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible

4 For a stillborn child enters in futility and departs in darkness, and his name is shrouded in obscurity.

5 The child, though neither seeing the sun nor knowing anything, has more rest than that man,

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

7 All a man’s labor is for his mouth, yet his appetite is never satisfied.

8 What advantage, then, has the wise man over the fool? What gain comes to the poor man who knows how to conduct himself before others?

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Genesis 5:5

So Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.

Genesis 5:23

So Enoch lived a total of 365 years.

Genesis 5:24

Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away.

Isaiah 65:22

No longer will they build houses for others to inhabit, nor plant for others to eat. For as is the lifetime of a tree, so will be the days of My people, and My chosen ones will fully enjoy the work of their hands.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

Job 7:7

Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.

Psalms 4:6

Many ask, “Who can show us the good?” Shine the light of Your face upon us, O LORD.

Psalms 4:7

You have filled my heart with more joy than when grain and new wine abound.

Psalms 34:12

Who is the man who delights in life, who desires to see good days?

Isaiah 65:20

No longer will a nursing infant live but a few days, or an old man fail to live out his years. For the youth will die at a hundred years, and he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.

Jeremiah 17:6

He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Job 1:21

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Job 30:23

Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.

Hebrews 9:27

Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,