Ecclesiastes 12:5

New International Version

when people are afraid of heights and of dangers in the streets; when the almond tree blossoms and the grasshopper drags itself along and desire no longer is stirred. Then people go to their eternal home and mourners go about the streets.

Cross References

Genesis 42:38

But Jacob said, “My son will not go down there with you; his brother is dead and he is the only one left. If harm comes to him on the journey you are taking, you will bring my gray head down to the grave in sorrow.”

Genesis 44:29

If you take this one from me too and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray head down to the grave in misery.’

Genesis 44:31

sees that the boy isn’t there, he will die. Your servants will bring the gray head of our father down to the grave in sorrow.

Job 15:10

The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men even older than your father.

Job 17:13

If the only home I hope for is the grave, if I spread out my bed in the realm of darkness,

Job 30:23

I know you will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.

Psalm 71:18

Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, my God, till I declare your power to the next generation, your mighty acts to all who are to come.

Proverbs 16:31

Gray hair is a crown of splendor; it is attained in the way of righteousness.

Proverbs 20:29

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

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.

Isaiah 46:4

Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.

Jeremiah 1:11

The word of the Lord came to me: “What do you see, Jeremiah?” “I see the branch of an almond tree,” I replied.

Jeremiah 9:16

I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known, and I will pursue them with the sword until I have made an end of them.”

Leviticus 19:32

“ ‘Stand up in the presence of the aged, show respect for the elderly and revere your God. I am the Lord.

Hebrews 9:27

Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment,