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I think I may have actually made it worse rather than better.... I shall bow out gracefully

I thought art/est was Biblical language- but that's a subject I know very little about!

Shakespeare used "art" many times.....
Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou etc.

But I am not knowledgable about Biblical language.

Malone, I'm the same with Shakespeare!

Portia in "The Merchant of Venice" .....



For as thou urgest justice, be assured
Thou shalt have justice more

And...

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Genesis.

Therefore, I shalt not eateth thereof ...hic

I believe - not from personal knowledge - that some parts of the Bible are very poetic. This verse is definitely not one such part...

When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself and walkedst whither thou wouldest but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.

"There'll be bluebirds over, the white cliffs of Dover,
Tomorrow, just you wait and see"
Dame Vera Lynn

A much more intelligible quotation, Rusty - thanks!