²³ For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.

⁵ Yes, they shall be afraid of heights, And terrors will be in the way; And the almond tree shall blossom, And the grasshopper shall be a burden, And desire shall fail; Because man goes to his everlasting home, And the mourners go about the streets:

⁶ Before the silver cord is severed, Or the golden bowl is broken, Or the pitcher is broken at the spring, Or the wheel broken at the cistern,

⁷ And the dust returns to the earth as it was, And the spirit returns to God who gave it.

¹⁹ By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

²⁷ Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

⁵ For the living know that they will die, but the dead don't know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

⁸ There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.

³³ The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. 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 you, And you have appointed his bounds that he can't pass;

⁸ 'Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether; Yet you destroy me.

²² "It is all the same. Therefore I say, He destroys the blameless and the wicked.

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

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