Ecclesiastes 12:4

New International Version

when the doors to the street are closed and the sound of grinding fades; when people rise up at the sound of birds, but all their songs grow faint;

Cross References

2 Samuel 19:35

I am now eighty years old. Can I tell the difference between what is enjoyable and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats and drinks? Can I still hear the voices of male and female singers? Why should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?

Job 41:14

Who dares open the doors of its mouth, ringed about with fearsome teeth?

Isaiah 47:2

Take millstones and grind flour; take off your veil. Lift up your skirts, bare your legs, and wade through the streams.

Jeremiah 25:10

I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of bride and bridegroom, the sound of millstones and the light of the lamp.

Revelation 18:22

The music of harpists and musicians, pipers and trumpeters, will never be heard in you again. No worker of any trade will ever be found in you again. The sound of a millstone will never be heard in you again.