Ecclesiastes 12:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And he is in fear of that which is high, and danger is in the road, and the tree is white with flower, and the least thing is a weight, and desire is at an end, because man goes to his last resting-place, and those who are sorrowing are in the streets;

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  • Job 17:13 : 13 If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;
  • Job 30:23 : 23 For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.
  • Prov 16:31 : 31 The grey head is a crown of glory, if it is seen in the way of righteousness.
  • Jer 9:17-20 : 17 This is what the Lord of armies has said: Take thought and send for the weeping women, so that they may come; and send for the wise women, so that they may come: 18 Let them quickly make cries of sorrow for us, so that drops may be flowing from our eyes till they are streaming with water. 19 For a sound of weeping goes up from Zion, a cry, How has destruction come on us? we are overcome with shame because we have gone away from our land; he has sent us out from our house. 20 But even now, give ear to the word of the Lord, O you women; let your ears be open to the word of his mouth, training your daughters to give cries of sorrow, everyone teaching her neighbour a song of grief.
  • Mark 5:38-39 : 38 And they came to the house of the ruler of the Synagogue; and he saw people running this way and that, and weeping and crying loudly. 39 And when he had gone in, he said to them, Why are you making such a noise and weeping? The child is not dead, but sleeping.
  • Heb 9:27 : 27 And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;
  • Prov 20:29 : 29 The glory of young men is their strength, and the honour of old men is their grey hairs.
  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.
  • Isa 46:4 : 4 Even when you are old I will be the same, and when you are grey-haired I will take care of you: I will still be responsible for what I made; yes, I will take you and keep you safe.
  • Jer 1:11 : 11 Again 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.
  • Ps 49:10-14 : 10 For he sees that wise men come to their end, and foolish persons of low behaviour come to destruction together, letting their wealth go to others. 11 The place of the dead is their house for ever, and their resting-place through all generations; those who come after them give their names to their lands. 12 But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts. 13 This is the way of the foolish; their silver is for those who come after them, and their children get the pleasure of their gold. (Selah.) 14 Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.
  • Ps 71:18 : 18 Now when I am old and grey-headed, O God, give me not up; till I have made clear your strength to this generation, and your power to all those to come.
  • Gen 42:38 : 38 And he said, I will not let my son go down with you; for his brother is dead and he is all I have: if evil overtakes him on the journey, then through you will my grey head go down to the underworld in sorrow.
  • Gen 44:29 : 29 If now you take this one from me, and some evil comes to him, you will make my grey head go down in sorrow to the underworld.
  • Gen 44:31 : 31 When he sees that the boy is not with us, he will come to his death, and our father's grey head will go down in sorrow to the underworld.
  • Gen 50:3-9 : 3 And the forty days needed for making the body ready went by: and there was weeping for him among the Egyptians for seventy days. 4 And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph said to the servants of Pharaoh, If now you have love for me, say these words to Pharaoh: 5 My father made me take an oath, saying, When I am dead, put me to rest in the place I have made ready for myself in the land of Canaan. So now let me go and put my father in his last resting-place, and I will come back again. 6 And Pharaoh said, Go up and put your father to rest, as you gave your oath to him. 7 So Joseph went up to put his father in his last resting-place; and with him went all the servants of Pharaoh, and the chief men of his house and all the chiefs of the land of Egypt, 8 And all the family of Joseph, and his brothers and his father's people: only their little ones and their flocks and herds they did not take with them from the land of Goshen. 9 And carriages went up with him and horsemen, a great army. 10 And they came to the grain-floor of Atad on the other side of Jordan, and there they gave the last honours to Jacob, with great and bitter sorrow, weeping for their father for seven days.
  • Lev 19:32 : 32 Get up from your seats before the white-haired, and give honour to the old, and let the fear of your God be before you: I am the Lord.
  • Job 15:10 : 10 With us are men who are grey-haired and full of years, much older than your father.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 12:6-7
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    6 Before ever the silver cord is cut, or the vessel of gold is broken, or the pot is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the water-hole;

    7 And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.

  • Eccl 12:1-4
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    1 Let your mind be turned to your Maker in the days of your strength, while the evil days come not, and the years are far away when you will say, I have no pleasure in them;

    2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not dark, and the clouds come not back after the rain;

    3 In the day when the keepers of the house are shaking for fear, and the strong men are bent down, and the women who were crushing the grain are at rest because their number is small, and those looking out of the windows are unable to see;

    4 When the doors are shut in the street, and the sound of the crushing is low, and the voice of the bird is soft, and the daughters of music will be made low;

  • 12 The vine has become dry and the fig-tree is feeble; the pomegranate and the palm-tree and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field, are dry: because joy has gone from the sons of men.

  • 11 And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted;

  • 2 He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.

  • 4 And the dead flower of his glory, which is on the head of the fertile valley, will be like the first early fruit before the summer; which a man takes and puts in his mouth the minute he sees it.

  • Job 14:10-12
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    10 But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?

    11 The waters go from a pool, and a river becomes waste and dry;

    12 So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.

  • 14 In order that no trees by the waters may be lifted up in their growth, putting their tops among the clouds; and that no trees which are watered may take their place on high: for they are all given up to death, to the lowest parts of the earth among the children of men, with those who go down to the underworld.

  • 22 And his soul comes near to the underworld, and his life to the angels of death.

  • 2 It is better to go to the house of weeping, than to go to the house of feasting; because that is the end of every man, and the living will take it to their hearts.

  • 27 When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you.

  • 26 You will come to your last resting-place in full strength, as the grain is taken up to the crushing-floor in its time.

  • 4 How long will the land have grief, and the plants of all the land be dry? because of the sins of the people living in it, destruction has overtaken the beasts and the birds; because they said, God does not see our ways.

  • 17 For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house:

  • 11 For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.

  • 12 When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.

  • 4 The earth is sorrowing and wasting away, the world is full of grief and wasting away, the high ones of the earth come to nothing.

  • 8 But even if a man's life is long and he has joy in all his years, let him keep in mind the dark days, because they will be great in number. Whatever may come is to no purpose.

  • 33 The earth of the valley covering his bones is sweet to him, and all men come after him, as there were unnumbered before him.

  • 15 All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.

  • 12 Have sorrow for the fields, the pleasing fields, the fertile vine;

  • 20 All go to one place, all are of the dust, and all will be turned to dust again.

  • 15 The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.

  • 16 All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.

  • 12 Hope put off is a weariness to the heart; but when what is desired comes, it is a tree of life.

  • 6 And in those days men will be hoping for death, and it will not come to them; and they will have a great desire for death, and death will go in flight from them.

  • 16 Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?

  • 26 Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.

  • 12 Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?

  • Ps 103:15-16
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    68%

    15 As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.

    16 The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.

  • 17 The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.

  • 4 Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.

  • 30 For you will be like a tree whose leaves have become dry, and like a garden without water.

  • 17 All hands will be feeble and all knees without strength, like water.

  • 13 Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld.

  • 5 Fear and shaking have come over me, with deep fear I am covered.

  • 12 But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

  • 20 Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.

  • 13 For it will be in the heart of the earth among the peoples, like the shaking of an olive-tree, as the last of the grapes after the getting-in is done.

  • 9 The earth is sorrowing and wasting away; Lebanon is put to shame and has become waste; Sharon is like the Arabah; and in Bashan and Carmel the leaves are falling.

  • 6 And though he goes on living a thousand years twice over and does not see good, are not the two going to the same place?

  • 21 To those whose desire is for death, but it comes not; who are searching for it more than for secret wealth;

  • 10 I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me.