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In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,

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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

temps où les gardiens de la maison tremblent, où les hommes forts se courbent, où celles qui moulent s'arrêtent parce qu'elles sont diminuées, où ceux qui regardent par les fenêtres sont obscurcis,

KJV

In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,

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