Ecclesiastes 12:1

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“Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;”

— WEB

“Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;”

— KJV

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

— ASV

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Lamentations 3:27 "It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth."
Ecclesiastes 11:8 "Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that …"
Psalms 71:17-18 "God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works."
Proverbs 22:6 "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it."
Luke 18:16 "Jesus summoned them, saying, “Allow the little children to come to me, and don’t hinder them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these."
Psalms 34:11 "Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh."
2 Timothy 3:15 "From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus."
Psalms 90:10 "The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes qui…"

Commentary

Here is, I. A call to young people to think of God, and mind their duty to him, when they are young: Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth. This is, 1. The royal preacher's application of his sermon concerning the vanity of the world and every thing in it. "You that are young flatter yourselves with expectations of great things from it, but believe those that have tried it; it yields no solid satisfaction to a soul; therefore, that you may not be deceived by this vanity, nor too much disturbed by it, remember your Creator, and so guard yourselves against the mischiefs that arise from the vanity of the creature." 2. It is the royal physician's antidote against the particular diseases of youth, the love of mirth, and the indulgence of sensual pleasures, the vanity which childhood and youth are subject to; to prevent and cure this, remember thy Creator. Here is, (1.) A great duty pressed upon us, to remember God as our creator, not only to remember that God is our Creator, that he made us and not we ourselves, and is therefore our rightful Lord and owner, but we must engage ourselves to him with the considerations which his being our Creator lay us under, and pay him the honour and duty which we owe him as our Creator.

— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary (public domain)

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