Ecclesiastes 12:5-7

English Standard Version

⁵ they are afraid also of what is high, and ^(A)terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along,^[a] and desire fails, because man is going to his ^(B)eternal ^(C)home, and the ^(D)mourners go about the streets— ⁶ before the silver cord is snapped, or ^(E)the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is ^(F)shattered at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern, ⁷ and ^(G)the dust returns to the earth as it was, and ^(H)the spirit returns to God ^(I)who gave it.