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Remember Your Creator

12 So remember your Creator during your youth!
Otherwise, troublesome days will come
and years will creep up on you when you’ll say,
        “I find no pleasure in them,”
Otherwise, when the sun, daylight, moon, or stars turn dark,
    or when clouds fail to return after the rain—
when that day comes, the palace guards will tremble,
    strong men will stoop down,
women grinders will cease because they are few,
    and the sight of[a] those who peer through the lattice will grow dim.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 12:3 The Heb. lacks the sight of