^{1 Ref} Let your mind be turned to your Maker in the days of your strength, while the evil days come not, and the years are far away when you will say, I have no pleasure in them;

^{2 Ref} While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not dark, and the clouds come not back after the rain;

^{3 Ref} In the day when the keepers of the house are shaking for fear, and the strong men are bent down, and the women who were crushing the grain are at rest because their number is small, and those looking out of the windows are unable to see;

^{4 Ref} When the doors are shut in the street, and the sound of the crushing is low, and the voice of the bird is soft, and the daughters of music will be made low;

^{1 Ref} Remember also thy Creators in days of thy youth, While that the evil days come not, Nor the years have arrived, that thou sayest, `I have no pleasure in them.'

^{2 Ref} While that the sun is not darkened, and the light, And the moon, and the stars, And the thick clouds returned after the rain.

^{3 Ref} In the day that keepers of the house tremble, And men of strength have bowed themselves, And grinders have ceased, because they have become few. And those looking out at the windows have become dim,

^{4 Ref} And doors have been shut in the street. When the noise of the grinding is low, And `one' riseth at the voice of the bird, And all daughters of song are bowed down.