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The Problems of Old Age

12 Remember your Creator while you are young, before the bad times come—before the years come when you say, “I have wasted my life.”[a]

Remember your Creator while you are young, before the time comes when the sun and the moon and the stars become dark to you—before problems come again and again like one storm after another.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 12:1 I have wasted my life Literally, “I take no pleasure in them.” This might mean “I don’t like the things I did when I was young” or “I don’t enjoy life now that I am old.”

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