Ecclesiastes 12:4-6

English Standard Version

⁴ and ^(A)the doors on the street are shut—when ^(B)the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all ^(C)the daughters of song are brought low— ⁵ they are afraid also of what is high, and ^(D)terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along,^[a] and desire fails, because man is going to his ^(E)eternal ^(F)home, and the ^(G)mourners go about the streets— ⁶ before the silver cord is snapped, or ^(H)the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is ^(I)shattered at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern,