Geneva Bible Notes (1560)Ecclesiastes 12

^{1 !} To thinke on God in youth and not to differe til age.

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

^{3 e} The eyes.

^{3 d} The tethe.

^{3 b} The hands, which kepe the bodie.

^{3 c} The legs.

^{4 f} The lippes, or mouth.

^{4 g} When the chawes shal scarse open & not be able to chewe no more.

^{4 h} He shal not be able to slepe.

^{4 i} That is, the winde pipes, on the eares shal be deafe & not able to heare singing.

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

^{5 l} Thei shal tremble as thei go, as thogh they were afraied.

^{5 m} Their head shal be as whites as the blossomes of an almonde tre.

^{5 n} thei shal be able to beare nothing.

^{6 q} That is, the vaines.

^{6 r} Meaning, the liuer.

^{6 s} Which is the head.

^{6 o} Meaning the marowe of the backe bone & the sinewes.

^{6 t} That is, the heart, out of the which the head draweth the powers of life.

^{6 p} The litle skine that couereth the braine, which is in colour like gold.

^{7 !} The soule returneth to God.

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

^{11 !} Wisdome is the gift of God and consisteth in fearing him and keping his commandements.

^{11 x} Which are well applied by the ministers whome he calleth masters.

^{11 y} That is, by God.

^{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.