Ecclesiastes 12:5

American Standard Version (1901)

yea, they shall be afraid of [that which is] high, and terrors [shall be] in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:

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  • Job 17:13 : 13 If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;
  • Job 30:23 : 23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.
  • Prov 16:31 : 31 The hoary head is a crown of glory; It shall be found in the way of righteousness.
  • Jer 9:17-20 : 17 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skilful women, that they may come: 18 and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters. 19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings. 20 Yet hear the word of Jehovah, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation.
  • Mark 5:38-39 : 38 And they come to the house of the ruler of the synagogue; and he beholdeth a tumult, and [many] weeping and wailing greatly. 39 And when he was entered in, he saith unto them, Why make ye a tumult, and weep? the child is not dead, but sleepeth.
  • Heb 9:27 : 27 And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this [cometh] judgment;
  • Prov 20:29 : 29 The glory of young men is their strength; And the beauty of old men is the hoary head.
  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do [it] with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest.
  • Isa 46:4 : 4 and even to old age I am he, and even to hoar hairs will I carry [you] ; I have made, and I will bear; yea, I will carry, and will deliver.
  • Jer 1:11 : 11 Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond-tree.
  • Ps 49:10-14 : 10 For he shall see it. Wise men die; The fool and the brutish alike perish, And leave their wealth to others. 11 Their inward thought is, [that] their houses [shall continue] for ever, [And] their dwelling-places to all generations; They call their lands after their own names. 12 But man [being] in honor abideth not: He is like the beasts that perish. 13 This their way is their folly: Yet after them men approve their sayings. {{Selah 14 They are appointed as a flock for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd; And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; And their beauty shall be for Sheol to consume, That there be no habitation for it.
  • Ps 71:18 : 18 Yea, even when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not, Until I have declared thy strength unto [the next] generation, Thy might to every one that is to come.
  • Gen 42:38 : 38 And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left: if harm befall him by the way in which ye go, then will ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.
  • Gen 44:29 : 29 and if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.
  • Gen 44:31 : 31 it will come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not [with us], that he will die: and thy servants will bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.
  • Gen 50:3-9 : 3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of embalming: and the Egyptians wept for him three-score and ten days. 4 And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found favor in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, 5 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again. 6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear. 7 And Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, 8 and all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen. 9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company. 10 And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
  • Lev 19:32 : 32 Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah.
  • Job 15:10 : 10 With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than thy father.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 12:6-7
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    6 before the silver cord is loosed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern,

    7 and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.

  • Eccl 12:1-4
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    1 Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

    2 before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;

    3 in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows shall be darkened,

    4 and the doors shall be shut in the street; when the sound of the grinding is low, and one shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;

  • 12 The vine is withered, and the fig-tree languisheth; the pomegranate-tree, the palm-tree also, and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field are withered: for joy is withered away from the sons of men.

  • 11 And thou mourn at thy latter end, When thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

  • 2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

  • 4 and the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be as the first-ripe fig before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.

  • Job 14:10-12
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    10 But man dieth, and is laid low: Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

    11 [ As] the waters fail from the sea, And the river wasteth and drieth up;

    12 So man lieth down and riseth not: Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep.

  • 14 to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height, [even] all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.

  • 22 Yea, his soul draweth near unto the pit, And his life to the destroyers.

  • 2 It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.

  • 27 When your fear cometh as a storm, And your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come upon you.

  • 26 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, Like as a shock of grain cometh in in its season.

  • 4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of them that dwell therein, the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.

  • 17 For though the fig-tree shall not flourish, Neither shall fruit be in the vines; The labor of the olive shall fail, And the fields shall yield no food; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, And there shall be no herd in the stalls:

  • 11 For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, and withereth the grass: and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his goings.

  • 12 Whilst it is yet in its greenness, [and] not cut down, It withereth before any [other] herb.

  • 4 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the lofty people of the earth do languish.

  • 8 Yea, if a man live many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.

  • 33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, And all men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him.

  • 15 All flesh shall perish together, And man shall turn again unto dust.

  • 12 They shall smite upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

  • 20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

  • 15 The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.

  • 16 And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that he laboreth for the wind?

  • 12 Hope deferred maketh the heart sick; But when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

  • 6 And in those days men shall seek death, and shall in no wise find it; and they shall desire to die, and death fleeth from them.

  • 16 It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.

  • 26 They lie down alike in the dust, And the worm covereth them.

  • 12 For who knoweth what is good for man in [his] life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

  • Ps 103:15-16
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    15 As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

    16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; And the place thereof shall know it no more.

  • 17 The seeds rot under their clods; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.

  • 4 Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.

  • 30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.

  • 17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

  • 13 They spend their days in prosperity, And in a moment they go down to Sheol.

  • 5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, And horror hath overwhelmed me.

  • 12 But man [being] in honor abideth not: He is like the beasts that perish.

  • 20 Betwixt morning and evening they are destroyed: They perish for ever without any regarding it.

  • 13 For thus shall it be in the midst of the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive-tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done.

  • 9 The land mourneth and languisheth; Lebanon is confounded and withereth away; Sharon is like a desert; and Bashan and Carmel shake off [their leaves] .

  • 6 yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet enjoy no good, do not all go to one place?

  • 21 Who long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures;

  • 10 I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.