Ecclesiastes 12 (Common English Bible)  View In My Bible
Troubling days to come  1 Remember your creator in your prime,
before the days of trouble arrive, and those years, about which
you'll say, "I take no pleasure in these"— 2 before the sun and
the light grow dark, the moon and the stars too, before the
clouds return after the rain; 3 on the day when the housekeepers
tremble and the strong men stoop; when the women who grind stop
working because they're so few, and those who look through the
windows grow dim; 4 when the doors to the street are shut, when
the sound of the mill fades, the sound of the bird rises, and
all the singers come down low; 5 when people are afraid of
things above and of terrors along the way; when the almond tree
blanches, the locust droops, and the caper-berry comes to
nothing;a when the human goes to the eternal abode, with
mourners all around in the street; 6 before the silver cord
snaps and the gold bowl shatters; the jar is broken at the
spring and the wheel is crushed at the p