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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look through the windows are dimmed, |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4and the doors on the street are shut—when the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low— |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and desire fails, because man is going to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets— |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6before the silver cord is snapped, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is shattered at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern, |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; all is vanity. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Besides being wise, the Preacher also taught the people knowledge, weighing and studying and arranging many proverbs with great care. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10The Preacher sought to find words of delight, and uprightly he wrote words of truth. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11The words of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings; they are given by one Shepherd. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12My son, beware of anything beyond these. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil. |
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