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

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20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

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20 All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.(A)

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27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

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27 Just as people are destined to die once,(A) and after that to face judgment,(B)

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23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

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23 I know you will bring me down to death,(A)
    to the place appointed for all the living.(B)

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For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

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That person will be like a bush in the wastelands;
    they will not see prosperity when it comes.
They will dwell in the parched places(A) of the desert,
    in a salt(B) land where no one lives.

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22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

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22 No longer will they build houses and others live in them,(A)
    or plant and others eat.
For as the days of a tree,(B)
    so will be the days(C) of my people;
my chosen(D) ones will long enjoy
    the work of their hands.

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20 There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.

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20 “Never again will there be in it
    an infant(A) who lives but a few days,
    or an old man who does not live out his years;(B)
the one who dies at a hundred
    will be thought a mere child;
the one who fails to reach[a] a hundred
    will be considered accursed.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 65:20 Or the sinner who reaches

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

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and the dust returns(A) to the ground it came from,
    and the spirit returns to God(B) who gave it.(C)

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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.

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A man may have a hundred children and live many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he cannot enjoy his prosperity and does not receive proper burial, I say that a stillborn(A) child is better off than he.(B)

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12 What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?

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12 Whoever of you loves life(A)
    and desires to see many good days,

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There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.

Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.

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Many, Lord, are asking, “Who will bring us prosperity?”
    Let the light of your face shine on us.(A)
Fill my heart(B) with joy(C)
    when their grain and new wine(D) abound.

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O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.

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Remember, O God, that my life is but a breath;(A)
    my eyes will never see happiness again.(B)

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21 And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.

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21 and said:

“Naked I came from my mother’s womb,
    and naked I will depart.[a](A)
The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away;(B)
    may the name of the Lord be praised.”(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 1:21 Or will return there