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Eclesiastés 12:1-7

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1 Acuérdate, pues, de tu Creador en los días de tu juventud, antes que vengan los días malos, y se acerquen los años en que digas: No tengo en ellos placer;
2 antes que se oscurezcan el sol y la luz, la luna y las estrellas, y las nubes vuelvan tras la lluvia;
3 el día cuando tiemblen los guardas de la casa y los fuertes se encorven, los que muelen estén ociosos porque son pocos, y se nublen los que miran por las ventanas;
4 cuando se cierren las puertas de la calle por ser bajo el sonido del molino, y se levante uno al canto del ave, y todas las hijas del canto sean abatidas;
5 cuando también teman a la altura y a los terrores en el camino, y florezca el almendro, se arrastre la langosta y la alcaparra pierda su efecto ; porque el hombre va a su morada eterna mientras los del duelo andan por la calle.
6 Acuérdate de El antes que se rompa el hilo de plata, se quiebre el cuenco de oro, se rompa el cántaro junto a la fuente, y se haga pedazos la rueda junto al pozo;
7 entonces volverá el polvo a la tierra como lo que era, y el espíritu volverá a Dios que lo dio.

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Eclesiastés 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.

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  • [a] O, y se pierda el apetito

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