Ecclesiastes 12:5

The Scriptures 1998

furthermore, they are afraid of what is high, and of low places in the way; and the almond tree blossoms, and the grasshopper becomes a burden, and desire perishes. For man is going to his everlasting home, and the mourners shall go about the streets.

Cross References

Genesis 42:38

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

Genesis 44:29

‘And if you take this one from me too, and harm comes to him, you shall bring down my grey hair with evil to the grave.’

Genesis 44:31

then it shall be, when he sees that the boy is not with us, that he shall die. So your servants shall bring down the grey hair of your servant our father with evil to the grave.

Job 15:10

Both the grey-haired and the aged are among us, much older than your father.

Job 17:13

If I wait – the grave is my house, I shall make my bed in darkness,

Job 30:23

For I have known that You bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

Psalm 71:18

And also when I am old and grey, O Elohim, do not forsake me, Until I declare Your strength to a generation, Your might to all those who are to come.

Proverbs 16:31

Grey hair is a crown of adorning, It is found in the way of righteousness.

Proverbs 20:29

The comeliness of young men is their strength, And the splendour of old men is their grey hair.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

All that your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or planning 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 grey hairs I carry! I have made and I bear, and I carry and rescue.

Jeremiah 1:11

And the word of יהוה  came to me, saying, “What do you see, Yirmeyahu?” And I said, “I see a branch of an almond tree.”

Jeremiah 9:16

“And I shall scatter them among the gentiles, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. And I shall send a sword after them until I have consumed them.”

Leviticus 19:32

‘Rise up before the grey-headed. And you shall favour the face of an old man, and shall fear your Elohim. I am יהוה.

Hebrews 9:27

And as it awaits men to die once, and after this the judgment,