LITV - Ecclesiastes - 12

12:1  Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, while the evil days do not come, or the years draw near when you shall say, I have no pleasure in them;

12:2  while not yet the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are darkened, or the clouds return after rain;

12:3  in the day when the housekeepers shall tremble, and the strong men are bowed, and the grinders cease because they are few; and those looking out the windows are darkened;

12:4  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;

12:5  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;

12:6  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;

12:7  then the dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it.

12:8  Vanity of vanities, says the preacher, all is vanity.

12:9  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.

12:10  The Preacher sought to find out pleasing words; and words of truth written on uprightness.

12:11  The words of the wise are as goads; yea, as nails driven by the masters of collections, they are given from one Shepherd.

12:12  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.

12:13  Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep His commandments; for this applies to every man.

12:14  For God shall bring every work into judgment, with all that is hidden, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.