Ecclesiastes 12

1 And remember creator your in [the] days of youth your until that not they will come [the] days of evil and they will arrive years which you will say not [belongs] to me in them pleasure.

Also call to mind your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of difficulty come, and before the years arrive when you say, “I have no pleasure in them,”

2 Until that not it will become dark the sun and the light and the moon and the stars and they will return the clouds after the rain.

do this before the light of the sun and the moon and the stars grows dark, and dark clouds return after the rain.

3 In the day when they will tremble [the] keepers of the house and they will bend themselves [the] people of strength and they will cease the [female] grinders for they have become few and they will grow dim the [women who] look in the windows.

That will be the time when the palace guards will tremble, and strong men are bent over, and the women who grind cease because they are few, and those who look out of windows no longer see clearly.

4 And they will be shut up [the] doors on the street when becomes low [the] sound of the grinding mill for someone may arise to [the] sound of bird and they may be reduced all [the] daughters of song.

That will be the time when the doors are shut in the street, and the sound of grinding stops, when men are startled at the voice of a bird, and the singing of girls' voices fades away.

5 Also from a high [place] people will be afraid and terrors [are] in the way and it may blossom the almond tree so it may drag itself along the grasshopper and it may fail the caper-berry for [is] going humankind to [the] house of perpetuity its and they will go about (in the street *L(abh)*) the mourners.

That will be the time when men become afraid of heights and of dangers along on the road, and when the almond tree blossoms, and when grasshoppers drag themselves along, and when natural desires fail. Then man goes to his eternal home and the mourners go down the streets.

6 Until that not (it will be snapped *Q(K)*) [the] cord of silver so it may be crushed [the] bowl of gold so it may be broken [the] jar at the water spring and it will be crushed the [water] wheel to the well.

Call to mind your Creator before the silver cord is cut, or the golden bowl is crushed, or the pitcher is shattered at the spring, or the water wheel is broken at the well,

7 And it will return the dust to the earth like which it was and the spirit it will return to God who he gave it.

before the dust returns to the earth where it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

8 Futility of futilities he said the Teacher everything [is] futility.

“A mist of vapor,” says the Teacher, “everything is vanishing vapor.”

9 And besides that he was Teacher wise again he taught knowledge the people and he weighed and he searched out he arranged in order proverbs [surely] a multitude.

The Teacher was wise and he taught the people knowledge. He studied and contemplated and set in order many proverbs.

10 sought Teacher to find words of delight and [what] was written uprightness [was] words of truth.

The Teacher sought to write using vivid, upright words of truth.

11 [the] words of Wise [people] [are] like goads and [are] like nails firmly fixed masters of collections they are given from a shepherd one.

The words of wise people are like goads. Like nails driven deeply are the words of the masters in collections of their proverbs, which are taught by one shepherd.

12 And excess more than them O child my be warned to make books many there not [is] an end and study much [is] weariness of flesh.

My son, be aware of something more: the making of many books, which has no end and much study brings weariness to the body.

13 [the] end of [the] matter Everything it has been heard God fear and commandments his keep for this [is] all humankind.

The end of the matter after everything has been heard, is that you must fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of mankind.

14 For every deed God he will bring in judgment with every hidden thing whether good and or evil.

For God will bring every deed into judgment, along with every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil.