Geneva Bible Notes: Ecclesiastes 12

Ecclesiastes 12:1 ^! To thinke on God in youth and not to differe til age.

Ecclesiastes 12:2 ^a Before thou come to a continual miserie: for when the cloudes remaine after the raine, mans grief is increased.

Ecclesiastes 12:3 ^e The eyes.

Ecclesiastes 12:3 ^d The tethe.

Ecclesiastes 12:3 ^b The hands, which kepe the bodie.

Ecclesiastes 12:3 ^c The legs.

Ecclesiastes 12:4 ^f The lippes, or mouth.

Ecclesiastes 12:4 ^g When the chawes shal scarse open & not be able to chewe no more.

Ecclesiastes 12:4 ^h He shal not be able to slepe.

Ecclesiastes 12:4 ⁱ That is, the winde pipes, on the eares shal be deafe & not able to heare singing.

Ecclesiastes 12:5 ^k To climbe hie because of their weakenes, or thei stoupe downe, as thogh they were afraid lest anie thing shulde hit them.

Ecclesiastes 12:5 ^l Thei shal tremble as thei go, as thogh they were afraied.

Ecclesiastes 12:5 ^m Their head shal be as whites as the blossomes of an almonde tre.

Ecclesiastes 12:5 ⁿ thei shal be able to beare nothing.

Ecclesiastes 12:6 ^q That is, the vaines.

Ecclesiastes 12:6 ^r Meaning, the liuer.

Ecclesiastes 12:6 ^s Which is the head.

Ecclesiastes 12:6 ^o Meaning the marowe of the backe bone & the sinewes.

Ecclesiastes 12:6 ^t That is, the heart, out of the which the head draweth the powers of life.

Ecclesiastes 12:6 ^p The litle skine that couereth the braine, which is in colour like gold.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 ^! The soule returneth to God.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 ^u The soule incontinently ether goeth to joy or torment, & slepeth not as the wicked imagine.

Ecclesiastes 12:11 ^! Wisdome is the gift of God and consisteth in fearing him and keping his commandements.

Ecclesiastes 12:11 ^x Which are well applied by the ministers whome he calleth masters.

Ecclesiastes 12:11 ^y That is, by God.

Ecclesiastes 12:12 ^z These things can not be comprehended in bokes, or learned by studie, but god must instruct the heart that you maiest onely knowe that wisdome is the true felicitie, & the way thereunto is to feare God.