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Ecclesiastes 12:5-7
Common English Bible
Ecclesiastes 12:5-7
Common English Bible
5 when people are afraid of things above
and of terrors along the way;
when the almond tree blanches, the locust droops,
and the caper-berry comes to nothing;[a]
when the human goes to the eternal abode,
with mourners all around in the street;
6 before the silver cord snaps and the gold bowl shatters;
the jar is broken at the spring and the wheel is crushed at the pit;
7 before dust returns to the earth as it was before
and the life-breath returns to God who gave it.
Footnotes
- Ecclesiastes 12:5 Heb uncertain
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