Catholic Public Domain Version

Ecclesiastes 12:1-4 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

1. Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the time of affliction arrives and the years draw near, about which you will say, "These do not please me."

2. Before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain,

3. when the guardians of the house will tremble, and the strongest men will waver, and those who grind grain will be idle, except for a small number, and those who look through the keyholes will be darkened.

4. And they will close the doors to the street, when the voice of he who grinds the grain will be humbled, and they will be disturbed at the sound of a flying thing, and all the daughters of song shall become deaf.