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Ecclesiastes

Enjoy Youth and Remember Your Creator: The Approach of Old Age

Ecclesiastes 11:7-12:8
7And sweet is the light, and pleasant for the eyes to see the sun. 8For if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all and remember the days of darkness, for they will be many; all that comes is vanity. 9Rejoice, O youth, in your youth, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes, and know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment. 10And remove vexation from your heart, and put away distress from your flesh, for youth and the dark hair are vanity.
Chapter 12
1And remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of distress come and the years arrive when you will say, 'I have no pleasure in them.' 2Before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars grow dark, and the clouds return after the rain. 3In the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the men of strength are bent, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look through the windows grow dim. 4And the doors are shut in the street; when the sound of the mill is low, and one rises at the sound of the bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low. 5Also they are afraid of what is high, and terrors are in the way; and the almond tree blossoms, and the locust drags itself along, and desire fails, because man is going to his eternal home, and the mourners go about in the street. 6Before the silver cord is snapped, and the golden bowl is broken, and the jar is shattered at the spring, and the wheel is broken at the cistern. 7And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it. 8Vanity of vanities, says the preacher; all is vanity.
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