The Holy Bible Septuagint LXX Unaltered English Word-for-Word from Interlinear Greek

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Ecclesiastes 12

12:1And remember the one creating you in the days of your youth! while the days of evil should not come, nor years should arrive, in which you shall then say, There is not in me a want for them.

12:2While the sun and the light are not darkened, nor the moon and the stars; nor the clouds return after the rain;

12:3in a day in which ever the keepers of the house should be shaken, and men of power should be turned aside, and the grinding women are idle because they are made few, and the women looking out of the openings shall darken;

12:4and they shall lock the doors in the market in weakness of the sound of the woman grinding, and one shall rise up to the sound of the sparrow, and all the daughters of song shall be humbled;

12:5and indeed from the height they shall see, even stupefactions in the way; and the almond shall bloom, and the locust shall thicken, and the caper shall be dispersed; because man went to his eternal house; and the ones beating their chests in mourning circled in the market;

12:6until whenever should be prostrated the line of silver; and the flower ornament of gold should be broken, and the water-pitcher should be broken at the spring, and the wheel should have rolled unto the pit;

12:7then the dust shall return upon the earth as it was; and the spirit should return to the God who gave it.

12:8Folly of follies, said the ecclesiastic, all things are folly.

12:9And it was extra that the ecclesiastic became wise, and he taught knowledge with man, and which he shall trace composed parables.

12:10The ecclesiastic sought much to find a wanting of words, and writing of uprightness of words of truth.

12:11The words of the wise are as the oxgoads, and as nails firmly planted; ones which by agreement were given from one shepherd.

12:12And O my son guard extra by them! To make many scrolls there is no limit; and much meditation is weariness of flesh.

12:13The end of the whole matter, hear! Fear God, and keep his commandments! for this is all man!

12:14For every action God shall lead into judgment, with all being looked over, if good and if evil.