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3
|Eclesiastés 12:3|
when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men stoop, when the grinders cease because they are few, and those looking through the windows grow dim;
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4
|Eclesiastés 12:4|
when the doors to the street are closed and the sound of grinding fades; when men rise up at the sound of birds, but all their songs grow faint;
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5
|Eclesiastés 12:5|
when men are afraid of heights and of dangers in the streets; when the almond tree blossoms and the grasshopper drags himself along and desire no longer is stirred. Then man goes to his eternal home and mourners go about the streets.
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6
|Eclesiastés 12:6|
Remember him — before the silver cord is severed, or the golden bowl is broken; before the pitcher is shattered at the spring, or the wheel broken at the well,
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7
|Eclesiastés 12:7|
and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
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8
|Eclesiastés 12:8|
“Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. [Or the leader of the assembly; also in verses 9 and 10] “Everything is meaningless!”
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9
|Eclesiastés 12:9|
Not only was the Teacher wise, but also he imparted knowledge to the people. He pondered and searched out and set in order many proverbs.
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10
|Eclesiastés 12:10|
The Teacher searched to find just the right words, and what he wrote was upright and true.
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11
|Eclesiastés 12:11|
The words of the wise are like goads, their collected sayings like firmly embedded nails — given by one Shepherd.
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12
|Eclesiastés 12:12|
Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them. Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.
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