Ecclesiastes 12:3-14

³When the doorkeepers of the house shall be moved, and the strongest men shall tremble; and the grinders shall be idle, when the number shall be made less, and seers by the holes shall wax dark;

⁴and shall close the doors in the street, in the lowness of the voice of a grinder; and they shall rise at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of song shall wax deaf.

⁵And high things shall dread, and shall be afeared in the way; and an almond tree shall flower, a locust shall be made fat, and capers shall be destroyed; for a man shall go into the house of his everlastingness, and wailers shall go about in the street.

⁶Have thou mind on thy Creator, before that a silveren rope be broken, and a golden lace run against, and a water pot be all-broken on the well, and a wheel be broken altogether on the cistern;

⁷and dust turn again into his earth, whereof it was, and the spirit turn again to God, that gave it.

⁸The vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes, the vanity of vanities, and all things be vanity. Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes, vanity of vanities, and all things vanity.

⁹And when Ecclesiastes was most wise, he taught the people, and he told out the things which he did, and he sought out wisdom, and made many parables;

¹⁰he sought profitable words, and he wrote most rightful or right words, and full of truth.

¹¹The words of wise men be as pricks, and as nails fastened deep, which be given of one shepherd by the counsels of masters.

¹²My son, seek thou no more than these; none end there is to make many books, and oft thinking is torment of the flesh.

¹³All we hear together the end of speaking. Dread thou God, and keep his behests; that is to know, every man.

¹⁴God shall bring all things into doom, that be done; for each thing covered, either privy, whether it be good, or evil.