Ecclesiastes 12:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Before ever the silver cord is cut, or the vessel of gold is broken, or the pot is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the water-hole;

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  • Zech 4:2-3 : 2 And he said to me, What do you see? And I said, I see a light-support, made all of gold, with its cup on the top of it and seven lights on it; and there are seven pipes to every one of the lights which are on the top of it; 3 And two olive-trees by it, one on the right side of the cup and one on the left.

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    7 And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.

    8 All things are to no purpose, says the Preacher, all is to no purpose.

  • Eccl 12:1-5
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    76%

    1 Let your mind be turned to your Maker in the days of your strength, while the evil days come not, and the years are far away when you will say, I have no pleasure in them;

    2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not dark, and the clouds come not back after the rain;

    3 In the day when the keepers of the house are shaking for fear, and the strong men are bent down, and the women who were crushing the grain are at rest because their number is small, and those looking out of the windows are unable to see;

    4 When the doors are shut in the street, and the sound of the crushing is low, and the voice of the bird is soft, and the daughters of music will be made low;

    5 And he is in fear of that which is high, and danger is in the road, and the tree is white with flower, and the least thing is a weight, and desire is at an end, because man goes to his last resting-place, and those who are sorrowing are in the streets;

  • Ps 141:7
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    7 Our bones are broken up at the mouth of the underworld, as the earth is broken by the plough.

  • Job 14:10-12
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    10 But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?

    11 The waters go from a pool, and a river becomes waste and dry;

    12 So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.

  • Job 17:11
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    11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.

  • Eccl 6:11-12
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    11 There are words without number for increasing what is to no purpose, but what is man profited by them?

    12 Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?

  • Isa 30:14
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    14 And he will let it be broken as a potter's vessel is broken: it will be smashed to bits without mercy; so that there will not be a bit in which one may take fire from the fireplace, or water from the spring.

  • Eccl 11:8-10
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    8 But even if a man's life is long and he has joy in all his years, let him keep in mind the dark days, because they will be great in number. Whatever may come is to no purpose.

    9 Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.

    10 So put away trouble from your heart, and sorrow from your flesh; because the early years and the best years are to no purpose.

  • Job 12:14-15
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    69%

    14 Truly, there is no building up of what is pulled down by him; when a man is shut up by him, no one may let him loose.

    15 Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.

  • Eccl 9:10
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    10 Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.

  • Eccl 3:20
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    20 All go to one place, all are of the dust, and all will be turned to dust again.

  • Job 34:15
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    15 All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.

  • Job 8:12
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    12 When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.

  • Job 12:12
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    12 Old men have wisdom, and a long life gives knowledge.

  • Eccl 3:6
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    6 A time for search and a time for loss; a time to keep and a time to give away;

  • Job 4:21
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    21 If their tent-cord is pulled up, do they not come to an end, and without wisdom?

  • Eccl 7:2
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    2 It is better to go to the house of weeping, than to go to the house of feasting; because that is the end of every man, and the living will take it to their hearts.

  • Eccl 9:12
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    12 Even man has no knowledge of his time; like fishes taken in an evil net, or like birds taken by deceit, are the sons of men taken in an evil time when it comes suddenly on them.

  • Job 17:16
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    16 Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?

  • Eccl 7:17
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    17 Be not evil overmuch, and be not foolish. Why come to your end before your time?

  • Eccl 6:6
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    6 And though he goes on living a thousand years twice over and does not see good, are not the two going to the same place?

  • Prov 5:11
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    11 And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted;

  • Eccl 6:9
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    9 What the eyes see is better than the wandering of desire. This is to no purpose and a desire for wind.

  • Lev 11:33
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    33 And if one of them gets into any vessel of earth, whatever is in the vessel will be unclean and the vessel will have to be broken.

  • Job 31:22
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    22 May my arm be pulled from my body, and be broken from its base.

  • Job 6:12
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    12 Is my strength the strength of stones, or is my flesh brass?

  • Job 12:5
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    5 In the thought of him who is in comfort there is no respect for one who is in trouble; such is the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

  • 2 Sam 14:14
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    14 For death comes to us all, and we are like water drained out on the earth, which it is not possible to take up again; and God will not take away the life of the man whose purpose is that he who has been sent away may not be completely cut off from him.

  • Job 33:22
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    22 And his soul comes near to the underworld, and his life to the angels of death.

  • Job 4:19
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    19 How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;

  • Nah 2:6
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    6 He takes the record of his great men: they go falling on their way; they go quickly to the wall, the cover is made ready.

  • Prov 6:15
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    15 For this cause his downfall will be sudden; quickly he will be broken, and there will be no help for him.

  • Job 5:26
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    26 You will come to your last resting-place in full strength, as the grain is taken up to the crushing-floor in its time.

  • Prov 5:15-16
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    15 Let water from your store and not that of others be your drink, and running water from your fountain.

    16 Let not your springs be flowing in the streets, or your streams of water in the open places.

  • Isa 19:10
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    10 And the makers of twisted thread will be crushed, and those who ... will be sad in heart.

  • Joel 1:17
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    17 The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.

  • Eccl 1:2
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    2 All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose.

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    22 For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.