²³ For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.

⁵ yea, they shall be afraid of `that which is' high, and terrors `shall be' in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:

⁶ before the silver cord is loosed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern,

⁷ and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.

¹⁹ in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

²⁷ And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this `cometh' judgment;

⁵ For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

⁸ There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in war: neither shall wickedness deliver him that is given to it.

³³ The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, And all men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him.

⁵ Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months is with thee, And thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

⁸ Thy hands have framed me and fashioned me Together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

²² It is all one; therefore I say, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

¹⁹ The small and the great are there: And the servant is free from his master.

¹⁴ For we must needs die, and are as water split on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God take away life, but deviseth means, that he that is banished be not an outcast from him.