1. Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, “I find no pleasure in them”—
2. before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars grow dark, and the clouds return after the rain;
3. when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men stoop, when the grinders cease because they are few, and those looking through the windows grow dim;
4. when the doors to the street are closed and the sound of grinding fades; when people rise up at the sound of birds, but all their songs grow faint;