Ecclesiastes 12:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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;

Cross References

Genesis 27:1

When Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called his elder son Esau and said to him, “My son,” and he answered, “Here I am.”

Genesis 48:10

Now the eyes of Israel were dim with age, and he could not see well. So Joseph brought them near him, and he kissed them and embraced them.

Psalm 102:23

He has broken my strength in midcourse; he has shortened my days.

Psalm 35:14

as though I grieved for a friend or a brother; I went about as one who laments for a mother, bowed down and in mourning.

Psalm 38:6

I am utterly bowed down and prostrate; all day long I go around mourning.

Zechariah 8:4

Thus says the Lord of hosts: Old men and old women shall again sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand because of their great age.

1 Samuel 3:2

At that time Eli, whose eyesight had begun to grow dim so that he could not see, was lying down in his room;