Strength of Youth and Broken Cisterns of the Aged

This text includes some of the most picturesque & pointed words in Ecclesiastes. With care & deliberation the wordsmith (a) 11:9-12:1 - Encourages young people to rejoice in their youth & goads them to serve God NOW - while they are young - before the evil days come . . . and years of no pleasure (b) 12:1-5 - Describes in both a humorous & metaphorical way the ravages of age
(c) 12:6-7 - Reminds young & old of reality & inevitability of death.