Sirach 14:17-19

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

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