Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when thou shall say, I have no pleasure in them,

For thou write bitter things against me, and make me to inherit the iniquities of my youth.

Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. According to thy loving kindness remember thou me, for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.

Therefore, all these things being disintegrated, what kind ought ye to be in holy actions and pieties,

Sorrow

For we are consumed in thine anger, and in thy wrath are we troubled.

And put

His bones are full of his youth, but it shall lie down with him in the dust.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every filthiness of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in fear of God.

And flee juvenile impulses, but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call upon the Lord out of a pure heart.

For

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Behold, thou have made my days [as] handbreadths, and my life-time is as nothing before thee. Surely every man at his best condition is altogether vanity. Selah.

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, [but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

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Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity.