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Ecclesiastes 12:5-7
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Ecclesiastes 12:5-7
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
5 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; 6 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, 7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath[c] returns to God who gave it.
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- Ecclesiastes 12:5 Or is a burden
- Ecclesiastes 12:6 Syr Vg Compare Gk: Heb is removed
- Ecclesiastes 12:7 Or the spirit
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