1 Remember your Creatorin the days of your youth,before the difficult days comeand the years arrive when you say,“I have no pleasure in them”:
2 before the sun, light,moon, and stars are darkened,and the clouds leave after the rain;
3 in the day when those watching the house tremble,and the strong men are bent over;when the grinders cease because they are few,and those looking through the windows have dimmed eyes;
4 and the doors on the street are shut,and the sound of grinding is low;and one rises up at the sound of a bird,and all the daughters of song are brought low;
5 when they are afraid of heights,even the terrors along the road;the almond tree blossoms,the grasshopper drags itself alongand desire fails,because man goes to his eternal home,and the mourners go about the streets.
6 Remember your Creator before the cord of silver is snapped,or the bowl of gold smashed,or the jar by the spring brokenor the wheel at the cistern crushed.