^{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;