⁶ Soon ·your life will snap like a silver chain [^Lthe silver thread will be snapped]
    ·or break like a golden bowl [^Land the golden bowl will be crushed].
·You will be like a broken pitcher at a spring [^LThe jar will be broken by the well],
    ·or a broken wheel at a well [^Land the wheel crushed by the cistern; ^Cmetaphors of death].
⁷ ·You will turn back into the dust of the earth again [^LThe dust will return to the earth as it was],
    ·but your [^Land the] spirit will return to God who gave it [3:21; Gen. 2:7; 3:19].

⁸ Everything is useless [1:2]!
The ·Teacher [or Preacher; ^LAssembler; 1:1] says that everything is useless [1:2].