Ecclesiastes 12:7
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Jeune homme, réjouis-toi dans ton jeune âge, et que ton cœur te rende content aux jours de ta jeunesse; et marche comme ton cœur te mène, et selon le regard de tes yeux; mais sache que pour toutes ces choses Dieu te fera venir en jugement.
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Bannis le chagrin de ton cœur, et éloigne les maux de ta chair; car le jeune âge et l'adolescence ne sont que vanité.
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Mais souviens-toi de ton créateur pendant les jours de ta jeunesse, avant que les jours mauvais viennent, avant qu'arrivent les années dont tu diras: Je n'y prends point de plaisir;
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Avant que le soleil, la lumière, la lune et les étoiles s'obscurcissent, et que les nuées reviennent après la pluie;
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Quand les gardes de la maison trembleront, que les hommes forts se courberont, que celles qui moulent cesseront, parce qu'elles seront diminuées; que celles qui regardent par les fenêtres, seront obscurcies;
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Et que les deux battants de la porte seront fermés sur la rue, quand s'abaissera le bruit de la meule; qu'on se lèvera au chant de l'oiseau, et que toutes les filles du chant seront abattues;
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Et que l'on craindra ce qui est élevé, qu'on aura des terreurs en marchant, que l'amandier fleurira, que la sauterelle deviendra pesante, et que l'appétit manquera; car l'homme s'en va vers sa demeure éternelle, et ceux qui pleurent feront le tour des rues;
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Ecclésiaste 12:1-7 Meaning and Commentary
INTRODUCTION TO ECCLESIASTES 12
This chapter begins with advice to young men, which is continued from the preceding; and particularly to remember their Creator in the days of their youth; enforced from the consideration of the troubles and inconveniences of old age, Ec 12:1; which, in an allegorical way, is beautifully described, Ec 12:2-6; and from the certainty of death, when it would be too late, Ec 12:7. And then the wise man returns to his first proposition, and which he kept in view all along, that all is vanity in youth or old age, Ec 12:8; and recommends the reading of this book, from the diligence, pains and labour, he used in composing it; from the sententious matter in it; from the agreeable, acceptable, and well chosen words, in which he had expressed it; and from the wisdom, uprightness, truth, efficacy, and authority of the doctrines of it, Ec 12:9-11; and from its preference to other books, which were wearisome both to author and reader, Ec 12:12. And it is concluded with the scope and design, the sum and substance of the whole of it, reducible to these two heads; the fear of God, and obedience to him, Ec 12:13; and which are urged from the consideration of a future judgment, into which all things shall be brought, Ec 12:14.
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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The Ostervald translation is in the public domain.
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