Ecclesiastes 6:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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 twice (i:e., not only almost a thousand years, like Methuselah, but twice a thousand),

Yet hath he seen no good. If the miser's length of "life" be thought to raise him above the abortive, Solomon answers, Long life, without enjoying real good, is but lengthened misery.

Do not all go to one place? Riches cannot exempt him from going where "all go." He must go there, where all arrive alike stripped of earthly goods (1 Timothy 6:7). He has no good either in life, or death, or eternity.

Ecclesiastes 6:6

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