Holy Scripture
Ecclesiastes 12:1
A church father on this verse
“Moreover, it is fight that you should fear God while you are yet young, before you give yourself over to evil things, and before the great and terrible day of God comes, when the sun shall no longer shine, neither the moon, nor the rest of the stars, but when in that storm and commotion of all things, the powers above…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
1And remember thy Creator In the days of thy youth, Before the days of evil come, And the years overtake thee in which thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them.
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— Ecclesiastes 12:1 —
2While the sun and light are not darkened, Nor the moon and the stars; Nor the clouds return after the rain:
3In the day wherein the keepers of the house shall tremble, And the mighty men shall become bent, And the grinding women cease because they have become few, And the women looking out at the windows be dark;