“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.”
The final chapter of the book draws, in an intensely beautiful and pathetic figure, the picture of death’s coming. Then it sums up all: “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter; Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duly of man.
“For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.”