Ecc 12:1 | JFB | STEP | 1. As showed what youths are to shun, so this verse shows what they are to follow. Creator —"Remember" that thou art not thine own, but God's property; for He has created thee ( ). Therefore serve Him with thy "all" ( ), and with thy best days, not with the dregs of them ( ). The Hebrew is "Creators," plural, implying the plurality of persons, as in ; so Hebrew, "Makers" ( ). while . . . not —that is, before that ( ) the evil days come; namely, calamity and old age, when one can no longer serve God, as in youth ( ). no pleasure —of a sensual kind ( ). Pleasure in God continues to the godly old ( ).

Ecclesiastes 12:1

1. As Ec 11:9, 10 showed what youths are to shun, so this verse shows what they are to follow.

Creator—"Remember" that thou art not thine own, but God's property; for He has created thee (Ps 100:3). Therefore serve Him with thy "all" (Mr 12:30), and with thy best days, not with the dregs of them (Pr 8:17; 22:6; Jer 3:4; La 3:27). The Hebrew is "Creators," plural, implying the plurality of persons, as in Ge 1:26; so Hebrew, "Makers" (Isa 54:5).

while . . . not—that is, before that (Pr 8:26) the evil days come; namely, calamity and old age, when one can no longer serve God, as in youth (Ec 11:2, 8).

no pleasure—of a sensual kind (2Sa 19:35; Ps 90:10). Pleasure in God continues to the godly old (Isa 46:4).