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 then thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when 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, are darkened, 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
In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out shall be darkened in 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 the doors shall be shut in the street, when the sound of the grinding is low; and one shall start up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be 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 [the] to mourn
Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and terrors shall be in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall drag itself along, and the caperberry shall fail; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets;
6 till which not (to bind *QK) 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 is snapped asunder, and the golden bowl is shattered, and the pitcher is broken at the fountain, and the wheel falleth shattered, into the pit;
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 returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth 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 besides that Koheleth was wise, he also taught the people knowledge; yea, he pondered, 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
Koheleth sought to find out words of delight, and that which was written 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 as goads, and as nails well fastened are those that are composed in collections; they are given from 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 furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study 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, all having been heard: fear God, and keep His commandments; for this is the whole 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 shall bring every work into the judgment concerning every hidden thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil.
