Ecclesiastes 12:1
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you will say, “I find no pleasure in them,”

Young's Literal Translation
Remember also thy Creators in days of thy youth, While that the evil days come not, Nor the years have arrived, that thou sayest, ‘I have no pleasure in them.’

King James Bible
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

Hebrew
Remember
וּזְכֹר֙ (ū·zə·ḵōr)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 2142: To mark, to remember, to mention, to be male

your Creator
בּ֣וֹרְאֶ֔יךָ (bō·wr·’e·ḵā)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 1254: To create, to cut down, select, feed

in the days
בִּימֵ֖י (bî·mê)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 3117: A day

of your youth,
בְּחוּרֹתֶ֑יךָ (bə·ḥū·rō·ṯe·ḵā)
Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 979: Youth

before
עַ֣ד (‘aḏ)
Preposition
Strong's 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

the days
יְמֵ֣י (yə·mê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 3117: A day

of adversity
הָֽרָעָ֔ה (hā·rā·‘āh)
Article | Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's 7451: Bad, evil

come,
יָבֹ֙אוּ֙ (yā·ḇō·’ū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

and the years
שָׁנִ֔ים (šā·nîm)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 8141: A year

approach
וְהִגִּ֣יעוּ (wə·hig·gî·‘ū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 5060: To touch, lay the hand upon, to reach, violently, to strike

of which
אֲשֶׁ֣ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

you will say,
תֹּאמַ֔ר (tō·mar)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

“I find no
אֵֽין־ (’ên-)
Adverb
Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

pleasure in them,”
חֵֽפֶץ׃ (ḥê·p̄eṣ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2656: Pleasure, desire, a valuable thing, a matter

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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