Ecclesiastes 12:5

Modern English Version

when they fear heights, even the terrors along the road; the almond tree blossoms white, and the grasshopper is burdened down, and the aphrodisiac caper-berry plant fails, because a person is going to his eternal home, and the mourners are throughout the streets;

Cross References

Job 17:13

If I wait, the grave is my house; I have made my bed in the 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

The silvery hair is a crown of glory; it is found in the way of righteousness.

Psalm 71:18

Now also when I am old and gray, O God, do not forsake me, until I declare Your might to this generation, and Your power to everyone who is to come.

Job 15:10

Both the gray-haired and very aged are among us — much older than your father.

Leviticus 19:32

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

Hebrews 9:27

As it is appointed for men to die once, but after this comes the judgment,

Jeremiah 1:11

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

Isaiah 46:4

And even to your old age I am He, and even to your graying years I will carry you; I have done it, and I will bear you; I will carry, and will deliver you.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hands find to do, do with your strength; for there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol where 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

when 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 the grave.

Genesis 44:29

And if you take this one also from me and he is harmed, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.’

Genesis 42:38

But Jacob said, “My son must not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If harm should happen to him on the journey you are to make, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.”

Jeremiah 9:16

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