Ecclesiastes 12:6-9

⁶Think much about God now, because soon our lives will end, like MET silver chains or golden bowls that break easily, or like pitchers/jugs that are broken at the water fountain, or like broken pulleys at a well.

⁷Then our corpses will decay and become dirt again, and our spirits will return to God, the one who gave us our spirits.

⁸So I say again that it is difficult to understand why everything happens; everything is mysterious.

⁹I was considered to be a very wise man, and I taught the people many things. I assembled/collected and wrote down many proverbs, and I carefully thought about and studied them.