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Ecclesiastes 11:7–12:8

Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to mbehold the sun: But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember nthe days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.

oRejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy pyouth, and qwalk in the ways of thine heart, and in rthe sight of thine eyes: sbut know thou, that for all these things tGod will bring thee into judgment. 10 Therefore remove ||sorrow from thy heart, and uput away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.

12 Remember now thy Creator ain the days of thy byouth, swhile cthe evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when dthou shalt say, I have no epleasure in them; sWhile the sun, or fthe light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain: In the day when the keepers of the house shall gtremble, and the hstrong men shall bow themselves, and ||the grinders cease because they are few, and ithose that look out of the windows be darkened, And jthe doors shall be shut in the kstreets, when lthe sound of the grinding mis low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all dthe daughters of musick shall be mbrought low; Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall nflourish, and the ograsshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his plong qhome, and rthe mourners go about the kstreets: sOr ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden tbowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall uthe dust return to the earth as it was: and xthe spirit shall return unto God ywho gave it.

zVanity of vanities, saith the apreacher; all is vanity.

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