Ecclesiastes 12:5

New King James Version

Also they are afraid of height, And of terrors in the way; When the almond tree blossoms, The grasshopper is a burden, And desire fails. For man goes to his eternal home, And the mourners go about the streets.

Cross References

Genesis 42:38

But he said, “My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he is left alone. If any calamity should befall him along the way in which you go, then you would bring down my gray hair with sorrow to the grave.”

Genesis 44:29

But if you take this one also from me, and calamity befalls him, you shall bring down my gray hair with sorrow to the grave.’

Genesis 44:31

it will happen, when he sees that the lad is not with us, that he will die. So your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father with sorrow to the grave.

Job 15:10

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

Job 17:13

If I wait for the grave as my house, If I make 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.

Psalm 71:18

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

Proverbs 16:31

The silver-haired head is a crown of glory, If it is found in the way of righteousness.

Proverbs 20:29

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

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going.

Isaiah 46:4

Even to your old age, I am He, And even to gray hairs I will carry you! I have made, and I will bear; Even I will carry, and will deliver you.

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.”

Jeremiah 9:16

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

Leviticus 19:32

‘You shall rise before the gray headed and honor the presence of an old man, and fear your God: I am the Lord.

Hebrews 9:27

And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,