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Ecclesiastes 12:5-7
American Standard Version
Ecclesiastes 12:5-7
American Standard Version
5 yea, they shall be afraid [a]of that which is high, and terrors shall be in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper [b]shall be a burden, and [c]desire shall [d]fail; because man goeth to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets: 6 before the silver cord is [e]loosed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern, 7 and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.
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- Ecclesiastes 12:5 Or, of danger from on high
- Ecclesiastes 12:5 Or, shall drag itself along
- Ecclesiastes 12:5 Or, the caperberry
- Ecclesiastes 12:5 Or, burst
- Ecclesiastes 12:6 Or, snapped asunder
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