4 Your ears will be deaf to the noise in the streets,and you will barely hear the millstone grinding grain.You’ll wake up when a bird starts singing,but you will barely hear singing.
5 You will fear high placesand will be afraid to go for a walk.Your hair will become white like the flowers on an almond tree.You will limp along like a grasshopper when you walk.Your appetite will be gone.Then you will go to your everlasting home,and people will go to your funeral.
6 Soon your life will snap like a silver chainor break like a golden bowl.You will be like a broken pitcher at a spring,or a broken wheel at a well.
7 You will turn back into the dust of the earth again,but your spirit will return to God who gave it.
8 Everything is useless!The Teacher says that everything is useless.
9 The Teacher was very wise and taught the people what he knew. He very carefully thought about, studied, and set in order many wise teachings.
10 The Teacher looked for just the right words to write what is dependable and true.