Ecclesiastes 12:5

English Standard Version 2016

they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and desire fails, because man is going to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets—

Cross References

Job 17:13

If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I make my bed in darkness,

Job 30:23

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

Proverbs 16:31

Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.

Psalm 71:18

So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come.

Job 15:10

Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, older than your father.

Leviticus 19:32

“You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

Jeremiah 1:11

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” And I said, “I see an almond branch.”

Isaiah 46:4

even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

Proverbs 20:29

The glory of young men is their strength, but the splendor of old men is their gray hair.

Genesis 44:31

as soon as he sees that the boy is not with us, he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.

Genesis 44:29

If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs in evil to Sheol.’

Genesis 42:38

But he said, “My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he is the only one left. If harm should happen to him on the journey that you are to make, you would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”

Jeremiah 9:16

I will scatter them among the nations whom neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.”