These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Ecclesiastes 12
Tanakh 14 verses
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Remember then thy Creator in the days of thy youth, Before the evil days come, And the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say: ‘I have no pleasure in them’;
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Ecclesiastes 11:8 Lamentations 3:27 Psalm 71:17-18 Luke 18:16 Psalm 34:11 Proverbs 22:6 Psalm 90:10 Proverbs 8:17 2 Samuel 19:35 Genesis 39:2 Psalm 22:9-10 2 Timothy 3:15 Genesis 39:23 Ecclesiastes 11:10 1 Kings 14:13 1 Kings 18:12 1 Samuel 17:36-37 Job 30:2 1 Samuel 16:7 Daniel 1:17 1 Samuel 2:26 2 Chronicles 34:2-3 1 Samuel 1:28 1 Samuel 2:18 Ephesians 6:4 1 Samuel 3:19-21 Luke 1:15 Hosea 7:9 1 Samuel 16:12-13 Isaiah 26:8 Genesis 39:8-9 Luke 2:40-52 Daniel 1:8-9 1 Kings 3:6-12 - 2 Before the sun, and the light, and the moon, And the stars, are darkened, And the clouds return after the rain;
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In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, And the strong men shall bow themselves, And the grinders cease because they are few, And those that look out shall be darkened in the windows,
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And the doors shall be shut in the street, When the sound of the grinding is low; And one shall start up at the voice of a bird, And all the daughters of music shall be brought low;
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- 5 Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, And terrors shall be in the way; And the almond-tree shall blossom, And the grasshopper shall drag itself along, And the caperberry shall fail; Because man goeth to his long home, And the mourners go about the streets;
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Before the silver cord is snapped asunder, And the golden bowl is shattered, And the pitcher is broken at the fountain, And the wheel falleth shattered, into the pit;
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- 7 And the dust returneth to the earth as it was, And the returneth unto who gave it.
- 8 Vanity of vanities, saith Koheleth; all is vanity.
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And besides that Koheleth was wise, he also taught the people knowledge; yea, he pondered, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.
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- 10 Koheleth sought to find out words of delight, and that which was written uprightly, even words of .
- 11 The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails well fastened are those that are composed in collections; they are given from one shepherd.
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And furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the .
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The end of the matter, all having been heard: , and keep His commandments; for this is the whole man.
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- 14 For shall bring every work into the judgment concerning every hidden thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil.