Ecclesiastes 12:4-6

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁴ and the doors on the street are shut; when the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low; 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,