Ecclesiastes 12:5

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

when one is afraid of heights, and terrors are in the road; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along and desire fails; because all must go to their eternal home, and the mourners will 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 alone is left. If harm should come to him on the journey that you are to make, you would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”

Genesis 44:29

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

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 Sheol.

Job 15:10

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

Job 17:13

If I look for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in darkness,

Job 30:23

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

Psalm 71:18

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

Proverbs 16:31

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

Proverbs 20:29

The glory of youths is their strength, but the beauty of the aged is their gray hair.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

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

Isaiah 46:4

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

Jeremiah 1:11

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 among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known; and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.

Leviticus 19:32

You shall rise before the aged, and defer to the old; and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once, and after that the judgment,