Ecclesiastes 12:4-14

⁴And the doors shall be shut in the street, when the sound of the grinding is low; and one shall start up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;

⁵Also when 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 drag itself along, and the caperberry shall fail; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets;

⁶Before the silver cord is snapped asunder, and the golden bowl is shattered, and the pitcher is broken at the fountain, and the wheel falleth shattered, into the pit;

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

⁸Vanity of vanities, saith Koheleth; all is vanity.

⁹And besides that Koheleth was wise, he also taught the people knowledge; yea, he pondered, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.

¹⁰Koheleth sought to find out words of delight, and that which was written uprightly, even words of truth.

¹¹The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails well fastened are those that are composed in collections; they are given from one shepherd.

¹²And furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

¹³The end of the matter, all having been heard: fear God, and keep His commandments; for this is the whole man.

¹⁴For God shall bring every work into the judgment concerning every hidden thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil.