Remember your Creator before the silver cord is [a]loosed,
Or the golden bowl is broken,
Or the pitcher shattered at the fountain,
Or the wheel broken at the well.
(A)Then the dust will return to the earth as it was,
(B)And the spirit will return to God (C)who gave it.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 12:6 So with Qr., Tg.; Kt. removed; LXX, Vg. broken

So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. For (A)we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, yes, (B)well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.

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