Ecclesiastes 12

1 Remember your Creator while you are young, before days of trouble come and you grow old, saying, "I’m not enjoying life anymore." 2 Before*12:2. "Before": the call is to remember the Creator before all the rest that follows in the succeeding verses. the light fades—sun, moon, and stars—and rain clouds return to darken the skies.

3 Before the guards of the house tremble and the strong men are bent over, the grinders stop working because there are only a few left, and the ones looking through the windows only see dimly,*12:3. The allusions to the problems of increasing age are obvious.