Ecclesiastes 12:6-8

International Children’s Bible

⁶Remember God before your life is snapped like a silver chain.
    Remember God before your life is broken like a golden bowl.
It will be as useless as a broken bucket at the spring.
    It will be no good, like a broken wheel at a water well.
⁷Your body will become part of the dust of the earth again.
    But your spirit will return to God who gave it.

⁸Everything is useless!
The Teacher says that everything is useless.

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Ecclesiastes 12:6-8

New International Version

⁶Remember him—before the silver cord is severed,
    and the golden bowl is broken;
before the pitcher is shattered at the spring,
    and the wheel broken at the well,
⁷and the dust returns^(A) to the ground it came from,
    and the spirit returns to God^(B) who gave it.^(C)