Ecclesiastes 12:5-7

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁵ they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along^[a] and desire fails; because man goes to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets; ⁶ before the silver cord is snapped,^[b] 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 returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.