Ecclesiastes 12:1

And remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of evil come, and the years overtake you in which you shall say, I have no pleasure in them.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

In Context

2While the sun and light are not darkened, nor the moon and the stars; nor the clouds return after the rain:

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Cross References

Genesis 39:8But he would not; but said to his master's wife, If because of me my master knows nothing in his house, and has given into my hands all things that belong to him:

Deuteronomy 8:18But you shall remember the Lord your God, that he gives you strength to get wealth; even that he may establish his covenant, which the Lord swore to your fathers, as at this day.

1 Samuel 2:18And Samuel ministered before the Lord, a child girded with a linen ephod.

1 Samuel 3:19And Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him, and there did not fall one of his words to the ground.

1 Samuel 16:12And he sent and fetched him: and he was ruddy, with beauty of eyes, and + 16:12 Gr. goodly in the sight of the Lord. very goodly to behold. And the Lord said to Samuel, Arise, and anoint David, for he is good.

2 Samuel 19:35I am this day eighty years old: can I then distinguish between good and evil? Can your servant taste any longer what I eat or drink? can I any longer hear the voice of singing men or singing women? and therefore shall your servant any longer be a burden to my lord the king?

Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 12:1

The wise and penitent preacher is here closing his sermon; and he closes it, not only lie a good orator, but like a good preacher, with that which was likely to make the best impressions and which he wished might be powerful and lasting upon his hearers. Here is, I. An exhortation to young people to begin betimes to be religious and not to put it off to old age ( ver. 1 ), enforced with arguments taken from the calamities of old age ( ver. 1-5 ) and the great change that death will make upon us, ver. 6, 7 . II. A… Read the whole commentary →

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