Ecc 12 | EngLXX | STEP | And remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of evil come, and theyears overtake you in which you shall say, I have no pleasure in them.

Ecclesiastes 12

1 And remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of evil come, and theyears overtakeyou in which you shall say, I have no pleasure in them. 2 While the sun and light are not darkened, nor the moon and the stars; nor the clouds returnafter the rain: 3 in the day wherein the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the mighty men shall becomebent, and the grindingwomen cease because they have become few, and thewomen looking out at the windows be dark; 4 and they shall shut the doors in the marketplace, because of the weakness of the voiceof her that grindsat the mill; and he shall rise up at the voice of the sparrow, and all the daughters of songshall be brought low; 5 and they shall look up, and fearsshall be in the way, and the almond tree shall blossom, and the locust shall increase, andthe caper shall be scattered: because man has gone to his eternal home, and the mourners have gone aboutthe market: 6 before the silver cord belet go, or the choice gold be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheelrun down to the cistern; 7 before the dust also return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return to God who gave it. 8 Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher; all is vanity. 9 And because the Preacher was wise aboveothers, so it was that he taught man excellent knowledge, and the ear will trace out the parables. 10 The Preacher sought diligently to find out acceptable words, and a correct writing,even words of truth. 11 The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails firmly fastened, which have been givenfrom one shepherd by agreement. 12 And moreover, my son, guard yourself by means of them: of making many books there isno end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. 13 Hear the end of the matter, the sun: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this isthe whole man. 14 For God will bring every work into judgment, with everything that has been overlooked,whetherit be good, or whetherit be evil.