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1 Re­mem­ber now thy Cre­ator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no plea­sure in them; 2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not dark­ened, nor the clouds re­turn af­ter the rain: 3 In the day when the keep­ers of the house shall trem­ble, and the strong men shall bow them­selves, and the grinders cease be­cause they are few, and those that look out of the win­dows be dark­ened, 4 And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grind­ing is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daugh­ters of mu­sick shall be brought low; 5 Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the al­mond tree shall flour­ish, and the grasshop­per shall be a bur­den, and de­sire shall fail: be­cause man goeth to his long home, and the mourn­ers go about the streets: 6 Or ever the sil­ver cord be loosed, or the gold­en bowl be bro­ken, or the pitch­er be bro­ken at the foun­tain, or the wheel bro­ken at the cis­tern. 7 Then shall the dust re­turn to the earth as it was: and the spir­it shall re­turn unto God who gave it. 8 Van­i­ty of van­i­ties, saith the preach­er; all is van­i­ty. 9 And more­over, be­cause the preach­er was wise, he still taught the peo­ple knowl­edge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in or­der many proverbs. 10 The preach­er sought to find out ac­cept­able words: and that which was writ­ten was up­right, even words of truth. 11 The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fas­tened by the mas­ters of as­sem­blies, which are giv­en from one shep­herd. 12 And fur­ther, by these, my son, be ad­mon­ished: of mak­ing many books there is no end; and much study is a weari­ness of the flesh. 13 Let us hear the con­clu­sion of the whole mat­ter: Fear God, and keep his com­mand­ments: for this is the whole duty of man. 14 For God shall bring ev­ery work into judg­ment, with ev­ery se­cret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.