12 Remember^(A) now your Creator in the days of your youth,
Before the ^[a]difficult days come,
And the years draw near ^(B)when you say,
“I have no pleasure in them”:
² While the sun and the light,
The moon and the stars,
Are not darkened,
And the clouds do not return after the rain;
³ In the day when the keepers of the house tremble,
And the strong men bow down;
When the grinders cease because they are few,
And those that look through the windows grow dim;