Seeing No Good in a Thousand Years Twice Told - Ecclesiastes 6:6

In the book of Ecclesiastes, Solomon said, “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 he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he. For he comes in with vanity, and departs in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness. Moreover he has not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this has more rest than the other”, and in chapter six and verse six of his book Solomon said, “though he live a thousand years twice told, yet has he seen no good” where we read,

Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet has he seen no good: 

do not all go to one place?

The verse reads, “Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet has he seen no good:” Solomon began with the words, “yes, though he live a thousand years” or “even so and indeed, if and whether he, the unhappy man with wealth, remains alive for one thousand years” “twice told” which means “beaten, stricken and occurring two times”, “yet has he seen” or “still the wealthy person has perceived, noticed, discerned and observed” “no good” which means “not one thing that is pleasant, agreeable, excellent and valuable”. Solomon said if the wealthy person lived two thousand years they would not perceive or observe any pleasantness and agreeableness. 

The verse continues, “do not all go to one place?” Daniel added the words, “do not all go” or “is it not true that each, every, the whole and everyone proceeds and goes forth” “to one place” which means “to the single location”? Solomon questioned whether it was true that everyone proceeds toward a single location which is death.

When we think through Solomon’s words in this verse, we see how the length of time a person lives and the amount of wealth they enjoy still does not prohibit them from proceeding toward “death” like everyone else. Paul the apostle wrote, “for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23), and “the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord”. (See Romans 6:23) In other words, everyone sins, and everyone dies because of those sins. For this reason God sent His Only Begotten Son Jesus into the world to die on the cross for the sins of all mankind, and He raised Him from the dead after three days so when we put our faith and trust in Him as our “Savior and Lord”, He will forgive our sins, grant us everlasting life and give us His Holy Spirit to guide us into all truth and help us to live our days in a way that is pleasing to Him until the day we go through “death” to join Him in Heaven. (See John 16:13; 2 Corinthians 5:21)

Next time Solomon says, “All the labor of man is for his mouth”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.

Until tomorrow…there is more…

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