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¹ Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, while the evil days do not come, or the years strike when you shall say, I have no pleasure in them;² while not yet the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are darkened, or the clouds return after rain;³ in the day when those keeping the house shall tremble, and the strong men are bowed, and the grinders cease because they are few; and those looking out the windows are darkened;⁴ and the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the mill is low, and one rises up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music are silenced;⁵ also they shall be afraid of a high place, and terrors in the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the locust makes himself a burden; and desire breaks, because man goes to his eternal home, and the mourners go about in the street;⁶ while the silver cord is not yet loosed, or the golden bowl is crushed, or the pitcher is shattered at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern;⁷ then the dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it.

⁸ Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, all is vanity.⁹ And more than that, the Preacher was wise; he still taught the people knowledge. Yes, he listened, and looked, and set in order many proverbs.¹⁰ The Preacher sought to find out pleasing words, and words of truth written on uprightness.¹¹ The words of the wise are as goads; yea, as nails driven by the masters of collections, they are given from one Shepherd.¹² And more than these, my son, be warned: The making of many books has no end, and much study is the weariness of the flesh.

¹³ Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep His commandments; for this applies to every man.¹⁴ For God shall bring every work into judgment, with all that is hidden, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.