Ecclesiastes 12:5

A Conservative Version

yea, they shall be afraid of height, and terrors [shall be] in the way, and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail, because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go

Cross References

Job 17:13

If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

Job 30:23

For I know that thou will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

Proverbs 16:31

The hoary head is a crown of glory. It shall be found in the way of righteousness.

Psalm 71:18

Yea, even when I am old and gray headed, O God, forsake me not, until I have declared thy strength to a generation, thy might to everyone who is to come.

Job 15:10

With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than thy father.

Leviticus 19:32

Thou shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and thou shall fear thy God. I am LORD.

Hebrews 9:27

And inasmuch as it is reserved to men once to die, and after this, judgment,

Jeremiah 1:11

Moreover the word of LORD came to me, saying, Jeremiah, what do thou see? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.

Isaiah 46:4

And even to old age I am he, and even to hoar hairs I will carry [you]. I have made, and I will bear, yea, I will carry, and will deliver.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever thy hand finds to do, do with thy might, for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where thou go.

Proverbs 20:29

The glory of young men is their strength, and the beauty of old men is the hoary head.

Genesis 44:31

it will come to pass, when he sees that the lad is not [with us], that he will die. And thy servants will bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.

Genesis 44:29

And if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.

Genesis 42:38

And he said, My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm befalls him by the way in which ye go, then ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.

Jeremiah 9:16

I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. And I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them.