1: Remember (Mark out/commemorate) your Creator in days of youth, when
days which are troublesome/evil (Ra) do not come and cause to touch (affect),
years of which you say ‘there was not one of them in which I had pleasure,
2: (years in) which, when the sun, moonlight and stars darken and the clouds turn back after the shower of rain,
3: in a day (when) house watchers shake off and strong men made themselves contort and food processors stood idle, for there were (too) few and window see-ers darkened,
4: and swing doors were boarded up in a street, soft the sound of a food processor as the bird song rises up and depressed are the songster daughters.
5: The high-and-mighty are also afraid of the terrorists in the way.
The almond tree is caused to be spurned and the grasshopper causes itself to drag a heavy load.
The aphrodisiac causes frustration.
For the human traveller goes to his eternal home and
the mourners encircled the streets.
6: Till when a silver noose is not loosened,
the golden bowl (Zech 4:2 vision) cracks and
a pail is shattered at the spring and the
wheel/pulley at the well was cracked.
7: And the dust turns back to the land as it happened to be.
And the spirit returns to the God who had given it.
8:” Vanity (empty/ unsatisfactory/ transitory) of vanities”, says the preacher, “the complete vanity”.
9: And to profit the people, taught a preacher of wisdom, was (why) knowledge was still there.
And he intently listened and sought and straightened out/organized and magnified/increased proverbs.
10: A preacher intensely searched to find words of delight and written, upright words of truth.
11: The words of the wise are like a cattle prod and like a driven cattle peg given by my Lord-archivists and The One Pasturer-Shepherd.
12: And to profit from them, my son, be polished.
There is no end of making many/great books.
And much concentration (l’hag) is flesh (physical) fatigue (y’giha).
13: Let God’s last word be heard: Fear His Commands. Watch for this. All the man.
14: For all God’s work causes to bring to judgement over all concealed – whether good or bad.
Prayer: Lord, we keep memories of good times – transitory as they are, frail as we are. There were bad days – and even years – for us, our kitchens, our homes and our high streets. Terrorists terrorised government and our own mortality seemed inevitable. Burgeoning, organized, published and evidenced knowledge was unsatisfying, empty and transitory even if it profited to prod and tie us down and make us polished. So we take Your last Word on this matter, The One Shepherd. We Fear You because You make judgements on good and bad.
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