Ecclesiastes 12:1

Remember Your Creator in Your Youth

¹ Remember _a now your Creator in the days of your youth,
Before the ₁ difficult days come,
And the years draw near _b when you say,
"I have no pleasure in them":

Cross References
2 Chronicles 34:3
For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the wooden images, the carved images, and the molded images.
Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.
Lamentations 3:27
It is good for a man to bear The yoke in his youth.

Cross References
2 Samuel 19:35
I am today eighty years old. Can I discern between the good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear any longer the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be a further burden to my lord the king?

Matthew Henry Concise

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Ecclesiastes 12:1

Strong's Concordance

Ecclesiastes 12:1

RememberH2142 now thy CreatorH1254 in the daysH3117 of thy youth,H979 while the evilH7451 daysH3117 comeH935 not, nor the yearsH8141 draw nighH5060, when thou shalt sayH559, I have no pleasureH2656 in them;

Notes

Ecclesiastes 12:1

Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, Before the difficult days come, And the years draw near when you say, "I have no pleasure in them":

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