Sirach 14:16

¹⁴Defraud not thyself of the good day, and let not the part of a good desire overpass thee.

¹⁵Shalt thou not leave thy travails unto another? and thy labours to be divided by lot?

— Sirach 14:16 —

¹⁷All flesh waxeth old as a garment: for the covenant from the beginning is, Thou shalt die the death.

¹⁸As of the green leaves on a thick tree, some fall, and some grow; so is the generation of flesh and blood, one cometh to an end, and another is born.