Ecclesiastes 6:6

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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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He live - Rather, he hath lived. “He” refers to the man Ecclesiastes 6:3 . His want of satisfaction in life, and the dishonor done to his corpse...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ecclesiastes 6. Further Reflections on Wealth and Fate. Parallel with the bitter experience of the avaricious man who loses his wealth is that of t...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

do not all. ? Figure of speech Erotesis (in Affirmation), App-6. Compare Ecclesiastes 3:19-21 . one place: i.e. Sheol. App-35.
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Nor known any thing: this hath, &c.— Nor known the difference of one thing from another: Ecclesiastes 6:6 . Nay, though he had lived twice...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place? Yea, though he live a thousand years t...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Life an Enigma 1-6. Riches will not secure happiness.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Yet hath he seen] RV 'and yet enjoy.' To one place? ] The grave embraces all alike. 7-12. The conditions of man's life are essentially uncertai...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Though. — The conjunction here used is only found again in Esther 7:4 .
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THIRD SECTION The Quest Of The Chief Good In Wealth, And In The Golden Mean Ecclesiastes 6:1-12 ; Ecclesiastes 7:1-29 , and Ecclesiastes 8:1-1...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The preacher knows prosperity experimentally far better than poverty. Moreover, by observation he is more familiar with men of wealth than with poor...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

If a man beget an 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 h...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 o...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Yea, though he live a thousand years twice [told], yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place? Ver. 6. Yea, though he live a thousand ye...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

If a man beget a hundred children Very many, to whom he intends to leave his estate; and live many years Which is the chief thing that he desires...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Miseries of Covetousness. 1 There is an evil which I have seen un...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Live a thousand years twice told; wherein he seems to have a privilege above an untimely birth. Hath he seen no good ; he hath enjoyed little or n...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Life Is Not Enjoyable To Even Some of the Rich ( Ecclesiastes 6:1-7 ). Ecclesiastes 6:1 ‘There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Ecclesiastes 6:1 . Common among men] In the strict meaning of the word, the reference is to the magnitude of the evil, and not t...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Ecclesiastes 5:9-20 ; Ecclesiastes 6:1-9 I. In all grades of society human subsistence is very much the same. Even princes are not fed with am...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Ecclesiastes 5:8-7 I. We left Koheleth in the act of exhorting us to fear God. The fear of God, of course, implies a belief in the Divine superint...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ecclesiastes 6:2 . But a stranger eateth it. The richer families in Israel had often foreign servants, who rose to influence in their master's hou...
The Biblical Illustrator

Do not all go to one place? All men’s place Do you know what the wise man means when he offers this question to your consideration, “Do not all...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Of the Vanity of Earthly Riches.
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, more than twice as long as the oldest patriarchs from Adam to Noah, yet hath he seen no good, his...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 12:7 ; Ecclesiastes 3:20 ; Ecclesiastes 6:3 ; Genesis 5:23 ; Genesis 5:24 ; Genesis 5:5 ; Hebrews 9:27 ; Isaiah 65:20 ; Isaiah...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Tho' he live — Wherein he seems to have a privilege above an untimely birth. Seen — He hath enjoyed no comfort in it, and therefore long life is ra...

⁶ Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

Related Commentaries of Ecclesiastes 6:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Ecclesiastes 6:6