Ecclesiastes 12:1-7 - Advice To The Young: Life Is Short And Then You Die

¹ Yet remember thy Creator, in the days of thy vigour, - or ever come in, the days of discomfort, and the years arrive, in which thou shalt say - I have, in them, no pleasure; ² Or ever be darkened - the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, - and the clouds return after a downpour of rain; ³ In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the men of might bow themselves, - and the grinders cease because they are few, and they who look through the windows are darkened; ⁴ And the doors in the street be closed, when the sound of the mill become low, - and one rise at the chirp of a small bird, and low-voiced be all the daughters of song; ⁵ Yea, at what is high, they be in fear, and there be, terrors, in the way, and the almond be rejected, and the grasshopper drag itself along, and desire perish, - for man is going to his age-abiding home, when the wailers shall go round in the streets; ⁶ Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, - or the bucket by the fountain be shivered, or the wheel at the well be broken; ⁷ And the dust return to the earth, as it was, - and, the spirit, return unto God, who gave it.