CHAPTER EXPLORER
Ecclesiastes 12
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14 verses in KJV · 177 outgoing cross-reference links
Opening verses of Ecclesiastes 12 (KJV)
12:1 Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
12:2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
12:3 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 be darkened,
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Traditional writer attribution: Solomon
Approximate study chronology: c. 977 BC
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