Ecclesiastes 12:4-6

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⁴ when the doors on the street are shut, and the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low;^{(A) 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;^{(B) 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,