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Ecclesiastes 12:6-8
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Ecclesiastes 12:6-8
EasyEnglish Bible
6 Remember to serve God while you are young,
because one day your life will finish.
It will be like a silver chain that breaks;
like a gold bowl that breaks;
like a water pot at the well that breaks into pieces;
like a rope at the well that breaks apart.[a]
7 Our bodies go back into the ground as dust.
The breath of our life goes back to God,
who gave it to us.[b]
8 So I, the Teacher, say,
‘All these things have no purpose.
We cannot understand why they happen.’
Footnotes
- 12:6 In verses 1-6, the Teacher uses different pictures to describe what happens to people in old age.
- 12:7 See Ecclesiastes 3:19; Genesis 2:7.
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