richmahn_en_tn/ecc/12/01.md

call to mind

This is an idiom. Alternate translation: "remember" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom)

before the days of difficulty come

Future time is spoken of as if the "days are coming" Alternate translation: "before you experience difficult times" or "before bad things happen to you" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)

before the years arrive when you say, "I have no pleasure in them,"

Future time is spoken of as if "years arrive" Alternate translation: "before you become old when you say, 'I no longer enjoy being alive,'" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)