⁹ You who are young, be happy while you are young,
    and let your heart give you joy in the days of your youth.
Follow the ways of your heart
    and whatever your eyes see,
but know that for all these things
    God will bring you into judgment.^(A)
10 So then, banish anxiety^(B) from your heart
    and cast off the troubles of your body,
    for youth and vigor are meaningless.^(C)

12 Remember^(D) your Creator
    in the days of your youth,
before the days of trouble^(E) come
    and the years approach when you will say,
    “I find no pleasure in them”—