Ecclesiastes 11:9-Ecclesiastes 12:8 - Remember Your Creator While You'Re Young

⁹ Be glad then, O thou young man, in thy youth, and let thine heart be merry in thy young days; follow the ways of thine own heart, and the lust of thine eyes: but be thou sure, that God shall bring thee into judgment for all these things. ¹⁰ Put away displeasure out of thine heart, and remove evil from thy body: for childhood and youth is but vanity.

¹ Remember thy maker in thy youth, before the days of adversity come, and or the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, "I have no pleasure in them"; ² before the sun, the light, the moon and stars be darkened, and or the clouds turn again after the rain; ³ when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and when the strong men shall bow themselves; when the millers stand still, because they be so few, and when the sight of the windows shall wax dim; ⁴ when the doors in the streets shall be shut, and when the voice of the miller shall be laid down; when men shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and when all the daughters of music shall be brought low; ⁵ When men shall fear in high places, and be afraid in the streets; when the Almond tree shall be despised, the grasshopper born out, and when great poverty shall break in; when man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. ⁶ Before the silver lace be taken away, and or the golden band be broken; or the pot be broken at the well, and the wheel upon the cistern; ⁷ Or dust be turned again unto earth from whence it came, and or the spirit return unto God, which gave it.

⁸ All is but vanity - sayeth the preacher - all is but plain vanity.