12 Remember your creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years draw near when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;

³⁰ Give to everyone who asks of you, and if anyone takes away what is yours, do not ask for it back again.^(A)

¹⁸ They are to do good, to be rich in good works, generous, and ready to share,^(A)

¹⁹ thus storing up for themselves the treasure of a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of the life that really is life.