Ecclesiastes 12

1 and to remember [obj] to create you in/on/with day youth your till which not to come (in): come day [the] distress: evil and to touch year which to say nothing to/for me in/on/with them pleasure

But remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youthful vigor, while the evil days are not yet come, nor those years draw nigh of which thou wilt say, I have no pleasure in them;

2 till which not to darken [the] sun and [the] light and [the] moon and [the] star and to return: return [the] cloud after [the] rain

While the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, are not yet darkened, and the clouds return not again after the rain;

3 in/on/with day which/that to tremble to keep: guard [the] house: home and to pervert human [the] strength and to cease [the] to grind for to diminish and to darken [the] to see: see in/on/with window

On the day when the watchmen of the house will tremble and the men of might will bend themselves, and the grinders stand idle, because they are become few, and those be darkened that look through the windows;

4 and to shut door in/on/with street in/on/with to abase voice: sound [the] mill and to arise: rise to/for voice: sound [the] bird and to bow all daughter [the] song

And when the two doors on the streets will be locked, while the sound of the mill becometh dull, and man riseth up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low;

5 also from high to fear and terror in/on/with way: journey and to spurn [the] almond and to bear [the] locust and to break [the] desire for to go: went [the] man to(wards) house: home forever: enduring his and to turn: turn (in/on/with street *L(abh)*) [the] to mourn

Also when men will be afraid of every elevation, and are terrified on every way, and the almond-tree will refuse [its blossom], and the locust will drag itself slowly along, and the desire will gainsay compliance; because man goeth to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets;

6 till which not (to bind *Q(K)*) cord [the] silver: money and to crush bowl [the] gold and to break jar upon [the] spring and to crush [the] wheel to(wards) [the] pit

While the silver cord is not yet torn loose, and the golden bowl is not crushed, and the pitcher is not broken at the fountain, and the wheel is not crushed at the cistern;

7 and to return: return [the] dust upon [the] land: soil like/as which/that to be and [the] spirit to return: return to(wards) [the] God which to give: give her

When the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return unto God who gave it.—

8 vanity vanity to say [the] preacher [the] all vanity

Vanity of vanities, saith Koheleth: all is vanity.—

9 and advantage which/that to be preacher wise still to learn: teach knowledge [obj] [the] people and to ponder and to search be straight proverb to multiply

And in addition to this that Koheleth was wise, he continually also taught the people knowledge, and he probed, and searched out, and composed many proverbs.

10 to seek preacher to/for to find word pleasure and to write uprightness word truth: true

Koheleth sought to find out acceptable words, and that which would be written down uprightly, even words of truth.

11 word wise like/as goad and like/as nail to plant master: [master of] collection to give: give from to pasture one

The words of the wise are like goads, and like nails fastened [are the words of] the men of the assemblies, which are given by one shepherd.

12 and advantage from them son: child my to warn to make scroll: book to multiply nothing end and study to multiply weariness flesh

But more than all these, my son, take warning for thyself: the making of many books would have no end; and much preaching is a weariness of the flesh.

13 end word: thing [the] all to hear: hear [obj] [the] God to fear: revere and [obj] commandment his to keep: obey for this all [the] man

The end of the matter is, let us hear the whole: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole [duty of] man.

14 for [obj] all deed [the] God to come (in): bring in/on/with justice: judgement upon all to conceal if pleasant and if bad: evil

For every deed will God bring into the judgment concerning every thing that hath been hidden, whether it be good, or whether it be bad.