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
Remember, also, thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, of which thou shalt 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
before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars become dark, and the clouds return 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
at the time when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows are darkened;
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
when the doors are shut in the streets, while the sound of the mill is low; when they rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music 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
when also they are afraid of that which is high, and terrors are in the way, and the almond is despised, and the locust is a burden, and the caper-berry is powerless; since 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
before the silver cord be snapped asunder, and the golden bowl be crushed, or the bucket broken at the fountain, or the wheel shattered at the well,
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
and the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return to God who gave it.
8 vanity vanity to say [the] preacher [the] all vanity
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; 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
Moreover, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he considered, and sought out, and set in order, many proverbs.
10 to seek preacher to/for to find word pleasure and to write uprightness word truth: true
The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and to write correctly 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 as goads; yea, as nails driven in are the words of members of assemblies, 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
And, moreover, by these, my son, be warned! To the multiplying of books there is no end, and much study wearieth 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
Let us hear the end of the whole discourse! Fear God and keep his commandments! For this is the duty of every 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 God will bring every work into the judgment which there is upon every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
