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when one is afraid of heights, and terrors are in the road; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along[a] and desire fails; because all must go to their eternal home, and the mourners will go about the streets; before the silver cord is snapped,[b] and the golden bowl is broken, and the pitcher is broken at the fountain, and the wheel broken at the cistern, and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath[c] returns to God who gave it.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 12:5 Or is a burden
  2. Ecclesiastes 12:6 Syr Vg Compare Gk: Heb is removed
  3. Ecclesiastes 12:7 Or the spirit

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