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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ecclesiastes 12:1 - 12:1
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As Ecc 11:9, Ecc 11:10 showed what youths are to shun, so this verse shows what they are to follow.
Creator - “Remember” that thou art not thine own, but God’s property; for He has created thee (Psa 100:3). Therefore serve Him with thy “all” (Mar 12:30), and with thy best days, not with the dregs of them (Pro 8:17; Pro 22:6; Jer 3:4; Lam 3:27). The Hebrew is “Creators,” plural, implying the plurality of persons, as in Gen 1:26; so Hebrew, “Makers” (Isa 54:5).
while ... not - that is, before that (Pro 8:26) the evil days come; namely, calamity and old age, when one can no longer serve God, as in youth (Ecc 11:2, Ecc 11:8).
no pleasure - of a sensual kind (2Sa 19:35; Psa 90:10). Pleasure in God continues to the godly old (Isa 46:4).