Ecclesiastes 12:4 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁴ 1 The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails deeply fastened in, which by the counsel of masters are given from one shepherd.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ 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;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ When the doors [the lips] are shut in the streets and the sound of the grinding [of the teeth] is low, and one rises up at the voice of a bird and the crowing of a cock, and all the daughters of music [the voice and the ear] are brought low;

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ and the doors shall be shut in the street; when the sound of the grinding is low, and one shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;

Common English Bible

⁴ when the doors to the street are shut, when the sound of the mill fades, the sound of the bird rises, and all the singers come down low;

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ And they will close the doors to the street, when the voice of he who grinds the grain will be humbled, and they will be disturbed at the sound of a flying thing, and all the daughters of song shall become deaf.

Ecclesiastes 12:4 Cross References

2 Samuel 19:35

0 So the king went on to Galgal, and Chamaam with him. Now all the people of Juda had brought the king over, and only half of the people of Israel were there.

Job 41:14

1 His breath kindleth coals, and a flame cometh forth out of his mouth.

Isaiah 47:2

0 And thou best trusted in thy wickedness, and hast said: There is none that seeth me. Thy wisdom, and thy knowledge, this hath deceived thee. And thou best said in thy heart: I am, and besides me there is no other.

Jeremiah 25:10

8 To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Juda, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof: to make them a desolation, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a curse, as it is at this day.

Revelation 18:22

Let us be glad and rejoice, and give glory to him; for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath prepared herself.