Ecclesiastes 12:2-8

American Standard Version

² before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain; ³ in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the ^[a]grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows shall be darkened, ⁴ and the doors shall be shut in the street; when the sound of the grinding is low, and one shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low; ⁵ yea, they shall be afraid ^[b]of that which is high, and terrors shall be in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper ^[c]shall be a burden, and ^[d]desire shall ^[e]fail; because man goeth to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets: ⁶ before the silver cord is ^[f]loosed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern, ⁷ and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it. ⁸ Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity.