Ecclesiastes
12:1 (NIV) Remember your Creator in the days of your
youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach
when you will say, "I find no pleasure in them"– 2 before the
sun and the light and the moon and the stars grow dark, and the clouds
return after the rain; 3 when the keepers of the house tremble,
and the strong men stoop, when the grinders cease because
they are few, and those looking through the windows grow
dim; 4 when the doors to the street are closed and the sound of
grinding fades; when men rise up at the sound of birds, but all their
songs grow faint; 5 when men are afraid of heights and of dangers
in the streets; when the almond tree blossoms and the grasshopper
drags himself along and desire no longer is stirred. Then
man goes to his eternal home and mourners go about the streets.
6 Remember him–before the silver cord is severed, or the golden
bowl is broken; before the pitcher is shattered at the spring, or
the wheel broken at the well, 7 and the dust returns to the ground
it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.