Ecclesiastes 12:4 - Easy To Read Version

⁴ You will become hard of hearing. You will not hear the noise in the streets. Even the stone grinding your grain will seem quiet to you. You won’t be able to hear the women singing. But even the sound of a bird singing will wake you early in the morning \{because you won’t be able to sleep\}.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ And 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.

Ecclesiastes 12:4 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 19:35

I am 80 years old! I am too old to tell which is bad and which is good. I am too old to taste the things I eat or drink. I am too old to hear any more the voices of men and women that sing. Why should you want to be bothered with me?

Job 41:14

No person can force Leviathan\par to open his jaws.\par The teeth in his mouth scare people.\par

Isaiah 47:2

\{Now you must work very hard.\}\par You must get the mill stones\par and grind the grain to make flour.\par Remove your veil and\par take off your fancy dresses.\par \{You must leave your country.\}\par Lift your skirts until\par men can see your legs,\par and cross the rivers. {\cf2\super [410]} \par

Jeremiah 25:10

I will bring an end to the sounds of joy and happiness in those places. There will be no more happy sounds of the brides and bridegrooms. I will take away the sound of people grinding meal. I will take away the light of the lamp.

Revelation 18:22

The music of people playing harps {\cf2\super [138]} and other instruments, flutes and trumpets,\par will never be heard in you again.\par No workman doing any job will ever be found in you again.\par The sound of a millstone {\cf2\super [139]} will never be heard in you again.\par