Rejoice, youngman in thy youth, and let thy heart be in good, in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: and know that for all these God will bring thee into judgement. Take away anger from thy heart, and remove malice from thy flesh. For youth and pleasure are vain. Remember thy creator in the days of thy youth, before the time of affliction come, & the years approach, of which thou mayst say: They please me not: before the sun, and light, and moon, and stars be dark, and the clouds return after the rain: when the keepers of the house shall be moved, and the strongest men shall stagger, and the grinders shall be idle in a small number: and they shall wax dark that look through the holes: and they shall shut the doors in the street, at the baseness of the grinder's voice, and they shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of song shall be deaf. The high things also shall fear, and they shall be afraid in the way, the almond tree shall flourish, the locust shall be fatted, and the caper tree shall be destroyed: because man shall go into the house of his eternity, and the mourners shall go round about in the street. Before the silver cord be broken, and the golden head-band recur, and the water-pot be broken upon the fountain, and the wheel be broken upon the cistern, and the dust return into his earth, from whence it was, and the spirit return to God, who gave it. Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes, and all things vanity.