Ecclesiastes 12:5

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

You will be afraid of high places. You will be afraid of tripping over every small thing in your path. Your hair will become white like the flowers on an almond tree. You will drag yourself along like a grasshopper when you walk. You will lose your desire, and then you will go to your eternal home. The mourners will gather in the streets as they carry your body to the grave.

Cross References

Job 17:13

“I might hope for the grave to be my new home. I might hope to make my bed in the dark grave.

Job 30:23

I know you will lead me to my death, to that place where all the living must go.

Proverbs 16:31

Gray hair is a crown of glory on people who have lived good lives. It is earned by living right.

Psalm 71:18

Now that I am old and my hair is gray, don’t leave me, God. I must tell the next generation about your power and greatness.

Job 15:10

The old, gray-haired men agree with us. People older than your father are on our side.

Leviticus 19:32

“Show honor to old people. Stand up when they come into the room. And show respect to your leaders. I am the Lord.

Hebrews 9:27

Everyone must die once. Then they are judged.

Jeremiah 1:11

The Lord’s message came to me: “Jeremiah, what do you see?” I answered, “I see a stick made from almond wood.”

Isaiah 46:4

and I will still be carrying you when you are old. Your hair will turn gray, and I will still carry you. I made you, and I will carry you to safety.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Every time you find work to do, do it the best you can. In the grave there is no work. There is no thinking, no knowledge, and there is no wisdom. And we are all going to the place of death.

Proverbs 20:29

We admire a young man for his strength, but we respect an old man for his gray hair.

Genesis 44:31

Our father will die if he sees that the boy isn’t with us—and it will be our fault. We will send our father to his grave a very sad man.

Genesis 44:29

If you take my other son away from me, and something happens to him, I will be sad enough to die.’

Genesis 42:38

But Jacob said, “I will not let Benjamin go with you. His brother is dead, and he is the only son left from my wife Rachel. It would kill me if anything happened to him during the trip to Egypt. You would send me to the grave a very sad, old man.”

Jeremiah 9:16

I will scatter the people of Judah throughout other nations. They will live in strange nations that they and their fathers never knew about. I will send men with swords. They will kill the people of Judah. They will kill them until all the people are gone.”