Ecclesiastes 12:5-7

Contemporary English Version

⁵ You will be afraid
to climb up a hill
    or walk down a road.
Your hair will turn as white
    as almond blossoms.
You will feel lifeless
and drag along
    like an old grasshopper.

We each go to our eternal home,
and the streets here are filled
    with those who mourn.
⁶ The silver cord snaps,
    the golden bowl breaks;
the water pitcher is smashed,
and the pulley at the well
    is shattered.
⁷ So our bodies return
    to the earth,
and the life-giving breath^[a]
    returns to God.