Sirach 14:17-19

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁷ All living beings become old like a garment,
    for the decree^[a] from of old is, ‘You must die!’
¹⁸ Like abundant leaves on a spreading tree
    that sheds some and puts forth others,
so are the generations of flesh and blood:
    one dies and another is born.
¹⁹ Every work decays and ceases to exist,
    and the one who made it will pass away with it.