Ecclesiastes 12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Ecclesiastes 12

1Remember your creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years draw near when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;

2before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return with the rain;

3in the day when the guards of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the women who grind cease working because they are few, and those who look through the windows see dimly;

4 and the caper bud falls; because all must go to their eternal home, and the mourners will go about the streets;

6before the silver cord is snapped, and the golden bowl is broken, and the pitcher is broken at the fountain, and the wheel broken at the cistern,

7 returns to God who gave it.

8Vanity of vanities, says the Teacher; all is vanity.

Epilogue

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12Of anything beyond these, my child, beware. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

13 every secret thing, whether good or evil.