1. So remember your Creator in the days of your youth: before the days of misery come, and years draw near when you will say: “I have no pleasure in them”—
2. before the sun and light and moon and the stars grow dark, and the clouds dissipate after the rain,
3. in the day the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men stoop, when grinders stop because they are few, and those peering out windows grow dim,
4. when doors are shut in the street and the sound of the mill fades, when one arises at the chirp of a bird and all their songs grow faint,