Ecclesiastes 12:5-7

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⁵ when one is afraid of heights, and terrors are in the road; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along,^[a] and the caper bud falls; because all must go to their eternal home, and the mourners will go about the streets;^{(A) 6} before the silver cord is snapped,^[b] and the golden bowl is broken, and the pitcher is broken at the fountain, and the wheel broken at the cistern, ⁷ and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath^[c] returns to God who gave it.^(B)