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Ecclesiastes 12:4

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

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And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;

Ecclesiastes 12:4 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Ecclesiastes 12:4

Theological / Devotional

The doors. In the Hebrew this word is a dual form, and thus refers to the two leaves of one door. Jewish commentators refer this figure to the pores of the body, for example, or to the two lips of the mouth.

The voice. Usually considered a figure for the sleeplessness of old age, as of an elderly person being awakened by the first chirping of a bird at earliest dawn.

Daughters of musick. The organs of speech and song, the vocal cords—perhaps a reference to the cracked and feeble voice of an elderly person.

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