¹⁴ yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For ^(A)you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

³⁵ I am this day ^(A)eighty years old. Can I discern what is pleasant and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or what he drinks? Can I still listen to the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be ^(B)an added burden to my lord the king?

^7 (A)Moses was 120 years old when he died. ^(B)His eye was undimmed, and his vigor unabated.

² before ^(A)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 tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the grinders cease because they are few, and ^(B)those who look through the windows are dimmed, ⁴ and ^(C)the doors on the street are shut—when ^(D)the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all ^(E)the daughters of song are brought low— ⁵ they are afraid also of what is high, and ^(F)terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along,^[a] and desire fails, because man is going to his ^(G)eternal ^(H)home, and the ^(I)mourners go about the streets— ⁶ before the silver cord is snapped, or ^(J)the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is ^(K)shattered at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern, ⁷ and ^(L)the dust returns to the earth as it was, and ^(M)the spirit returns to God ^(N)who gave it.