Ecclesiastes 12:3
Good News Translation
Then your arms, that have protected you, will tremble, and your legs, now strong, will grow weak. Your teeth will be too few to chew your food, and your eyes too dim to see clearly.

New Revised Standard Version
in the day when the guards of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the women who grind cease working because they are few, and those who look through the windows see dimly;

Contemporary English Version
Your body will grow feeble, your teeth will decay, and your eyesight fail.

New American Bible
When the guardians of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent; When the women who grind are idle because they are few, and those who look through the windows grow blind;

Douay-Rheims Bible
When the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall stagger, and the grinders shall be idle in a small number, and they that look through the holes shall be darkened:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

When the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall stagger, and the grinders shall be idle in a small number, and they that look through the holes shall be darkened:

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2 Samuel 21:15-17 And the Philistines made war again against Israel, and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. And David growing faint, . . .

Psalm 90:9,10 For all our days are spent; and in thy wrath we have fainted away. Our years shall be considered as a spider: . . .

Psalm 102:23 He answered him in the way of his strength: Declare unto me the fewness of my days.

Zechariah 8:4 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem: and every man with his staff in his hand through multitude of days.

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Ecclesiastes 12:2 Before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars be darkened, and the clouds return after the rain:

Context
Remember Your Creator
2Before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars be darkened, and the clouds return after the rain: 3When the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall stagger, and the grinders shall be idle in a small number, and they that look through the holes shall be darkened:4And they shall shut the doors in the street, when the grinder's voice shall be low, and they shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music shall grow deaf.…
Cross References
Genesis 27:1
Now Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, and he could not see: and he called Esau, his elder son, and said to him: My son? And he answered: Here I am.

Genesis 48:10
For Israel's eyes were dim by reason of his great age, and he could not see clearly. And when they were brought to him, he kissed and embraced them,

1 Samuel 3:2
And it came to pass one day when Heli lay in his place, and his eyes were grown dim, that he could not see:

Psalm 35:14
As a neighbour and as an own brother, so did I please: as one mourning and sorrowful so was I humbled.

Psalm 38:6
I am become miserable, and am bowed down even to the end: I walked sorrowful all the day long.

Ecclesiastes 12:2
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