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Ecclesiastes 12:1–7

The Preacher: remember your Creator in your youth, before the spirit returns to Elohim

1And remember your Creator in the days of your young manhood, before the days of evil come and years arrive of which you will say, “I have no delight in them”;

2before the sun is darkened, and the light, and the moon and the stars, and the clouds return after the rain;

3on the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the men of vigor stoop, and those who grind cease because they are few, and those who look through the windows grow dark,

4and the doors on the street are shut, when the sound of the mill is low, and one rises at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low;

5also of what is high they are afraid, and terrors are in the way; and the almond tree blossoms, and the grasshopper grows heavy, and the caper fails, because the human being is going to his eternal house, and the mourners go around in the street;

6before the silver cord is snapped, and the golden bowl is crushed, and the jar is shattered at the spring, and the wheel is broken at the cistern;

7and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to Elohim who gave it.

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8“Vapor of vapors,” says Qohelet; “everything is vapor.”

9And besides that Qohelet was wise, he also taught the people knowledge, and he weighed and searched out; he arranged many proverbs.

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Death and Eternal Life