Ecclesiastes 12:4
Ecclesiastes 12:4 — The New International Version (NIV)
4 when the doors to the street are closed
and the sound of grinding fades;
when people rise up at the sound of birds,
but all their songs grow faint;
Ecclesiastes 12:4 — King James Version (KJV 1900)
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;
Ecclesiastes 12:4 — New Living Translation (NLT)
4 Remember him before the door to life’s opportunities is closed and the sound of work fades. Now you rise at the first chirping of the birds, but then all their sounds will grow faint.
Ecclesiastes 12:4 — The New King James Version (NKJV)
4 When the doors are shut in the streets,
And the sound of grinding is low;
When one rises up at the sound of a bird,
And all the daughters of music are brought low.
Ecclesiastes 12:4 — New Century Version (NCV)
4 Your ears will be deaf to the noise in the streets,
and you will barely hear the millstone grinding grain.
You’ll wake up when a bird starts singing,
but you will barely hear singing.
Ecclesiastes 12:4 — American Standard Version (ASV)
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;
Ecclesiastes 12:4 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)
4 and the doors are shut toward the street; when the sound of the grinding is subdued, and they rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low;
Ecclesiastes 12:4 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)
4 Remember your Creator when the doors to the street are closed,
the sound of the mill is muffled,
you are startled at the sound of a bird,
⸤and⸥ those who sing songs become quiet.
Ecclesiastes 12:4 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
4 the doors at the street are shut
while the sound of the mill fades;
when one rises at the sound of a bird,
and all the daughters of song grow faint.
Ecclesiastes 12:4 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
4 when the doors on the street are shut, and the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low;
Ecclesiastes 12:4 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)
4 When the doors on the street are shut,
when the sound of the grinding mill is low;
one rises up to the sound of the bird,
and all the daughters of song are brought low.
Ecclesiastes 12:4 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)
4 Remember your Creator before the front doors are closed.
That’s when the sound of grinding will fade away.
Old men will rise up when they hear birds singing.
But they will barely hear any of their songs.
Ecclesiastes 12:4 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)
4 and the doors on the street are shut as the sound of the grinding mill is low, and one will arise at the sound of the bird, and all the daughters of song will sing softly.