-
Ecclesiastes 12
- 1 Remember also 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;
- 2 before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;
- 3 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 of the windows shall be darkened,
- 4 and the doors shall be shut in the street; when the sound of the grinding is low, and one shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;
- 5 yea, 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 be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:
- 6 before the silver cord is loosed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern,
- 7 and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.
- 8 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity.
- 9 And further, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he pondered, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.
- 10 The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written uprightly, even words of truth.
- 11 The words of the wise are as goads; and as nails well fastened are the words of the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.
- 12 And furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
- 13 This isthe end of the matter; all hath been heard: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.
- 14 For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
-
-
World English Bible (web)
- Afrikaans
- Albanian
- Arabic
- Armenian
- Basque
- Breton
- Calo
- Chamorro
- Cherokee
- Chinese
- Coptic
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dari
- Dutch
-
English
American King James Version (akjv) American Standard Version (asv) Basic English Bible (basicenglish) Douay Rheims (douayrheims) John Wycliffe Bible (c.1395) (wycliffe) King James Version (kjv) King James Version (1769) with Strongs Numbers and Morphology and CatchWords, including Apocrypha (without glosses) (kjva) Webster's Bible (wb) Weymouth NT (weymouth) William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530) (tyndale) World English Bible (web) Young's Literal Translation (ylt)
- English and Klingon.
- Esperanto
- Estonian
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Gothic
- Greek
- Greek Modern
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Latin
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Malagasy
- Malayalam
- Manx Gaelic
- Maori
- Mongolian
- Myanmar Burmse
- Ndebele
- Norwegian bokmal
- Norwegian nynorsk
- Pohnpeian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Potawatomi
- Romanian
- Russian
- Scottish Gaelic
- Serbian
- Shona
- Slavonic Elizabeth
- Spanish
- Swahili
- Swedish
- Syriac
- Tagalog
- Tausug
- Thai
- Tok Pisin
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Uma
- Vietnamese
Favourite Verse
You should select one of your favourite verses.
This verse in combination with your session key will be used to authenticate you in the future.
This is currently the active session key.
Should you have another session key from a previous session.
You can add it here to load your previous session.