Verse 1
1. Remember Solemn reminder of what youth is inclined to forget.
Thy Creator Who formed the frame described in Ecclesiastes 12:6, and will bring thee to judgment, Ecclesiastes 12:14. Now… thy youth In emphatic contrast with thy gloomy old age, brought on by forgetting God, pictured in Ecclesiastes 12:2-5.
when woe and care will render such piety difficult, and with that dissolution, (6, 7,) which make repentance impossible. Wretched is the man who gives his best days and strongest powers to the service of Satan, expecting to give God the dregs of his life, or to repent in the hour of death.
No pleasure The freshness of life is gone; the world is dark and drear; and the soured spirit has no heart for devotion.
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