Ecclesiastes 12:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

Or, &c. New figures now (in Ecclesiastes 12:6) introduced, referring to the arrival (Structure, above) of death itself.

the silver cord: i.e. the spinal cord.

the golden bowl: i.e. the head, or skull.

pitcher: the failure of the heart.

the wheel. On which the bucket is brought up by. rope from the cistern, or well.

Ecclesiastes 12:6

6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.