Ecclesiastes 12:5

Coverdale Bible (1535)

whan men shal feare in hye places, and be afrayed in the stretes: whan the Almonde tre shalbe despysed, the greshopper borne out, and whan greate pouerte shall breake in: when man goeth to his longe home, and the mourners go aboute the stretes.

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  • Job 17:13 : 13 Though I tary neuer so moch, yet the graue is my house, and I must make my bed in the darcke.
  • Job 30:23 : 23 Sure I am, yt thou wilt delyuer me vnto death: where as a lodgyng is prepared for all me
  • Prov 16:31 : 31 Age is a crowne of worshipe, yf it be founde in the waye of righteousnes.
  • Jer 9:17-20 : 17 Morouer, thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes: loke that ye call for mournynge wyues, and sende for wise women: that they come shortly, 18 and singe a mournynge songe of you: that the teares maye fall out of oure eyes, and that oure eye lyddes maye gushe out of water. 19 For there is a lamentable noyse herde of Sion: O how are we so sore destroyed? O how are we so piteously confounded? We must forsake oure owne naturall countre, and we are shot out of oure owne lodgiges. 20 Yet heare the worde of the LORDE (o ye women). And let youre eares regarde the wordes of his mouth: that ye maye lerne youre doughters to mourne, and that euery one maye teach hir neghbouresse, to make lamentacion.
  • Mark 5:38-39 : 38 And he came in to the ruler of the synagoges house, and sawe the busynes, and them that wepte and wayled greatly: 39 and he wente in, and sayde vnto them: Why make ye this a doo, and wepe? The mayde is not deed, but slepeth.
  • Heb 9:27 : 27 And as it is appoynted vnto me yt they shal once dye, and then cometh the iudgmet: Eue
  • Prov 20:29 : 29 The strength of yonge men is their worshipe, & a gray heade, is an honor vnto ye aged.
  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 What so euer thou takest in hande to do, that do with all thy power: for amoge the deed (where as thou goest vnto) there is nether worke, councell, knowlege ner wy?dome.
  • Isa 46:4 : 4 I I which shall beare you vnto youre last age: I haue made you, I will also norish you, beare you and saue you.
  • Jer 1:11 : 11 After this, the LORDE spake vnto me sayenge: Ieremy, what seist thou? And I sayde: I se a wakynge rodde.
  • Ps 49:10-14 : 10 For it shal be sene, yt soch wyse me shal dye & perishe together, as well as the ignoraunt and foolish, & leaue their goodes for other. 11 Loke what is in their houses, it cotinueth still: their dwellinge places endure from one generacion to another, & are called after their owne names vpon the earth, 12 Neuerthelesse ma abydeth not insoch honor, but is copared vnto ye brute beastes, & becometh like vnto the. 13 This waie of theirs is very foolishnesse, & yet their posterite prayse it wt their mouth. 14 Sela. They lye in the hell like shepe, death shal gnawe vpon them, & the rightuous shal haue dominacion of them in the mornynge by tymes: their stregth shal consume, & hell shalbe their dwellinge.
  • Ps 71:18 : 18 O what greate troubles & aduersite hast thou shewed me? & yet didest thou turne & refresh me, yee & broughtest me from the depe of the earth agayne.
  • Gen 42:38 : 38 He sayde: my sonne shal not go downe with you: for his brother is deed, and he is left alone. Yf eny mysfortune shulde happen vnto him by the waye yt ye go, ye shulde bringe my graye hayre with sorowe downe vnto the graue.
  • Gen 44:29 : 29 Yf ye take this fro me also, and eny mysfortune happe him, then shal ye brynge my gray heer with sorowe downe vnto the graue.
  • Gen 44:31 : 31 then shall it come to passe, that yf he se not the lad there, he shal dye. So shal we thy seruauntes brynge the gray heer of thy seruaunt oure father with sorowe downe to the graue.
  • Gen 50:3-9 : 3 tyll fourtye dayes were ended (for so longe endured the dayes of embawminge) & the Egipcians bewayled him seuentye dayes. 4 Now whan the mournynge dayes were ended, Ioseph spake vnto Pharaos housholde, & sayde: Yf I haue founde fauor in youre sight, the speake vnto Pharao and saie: 5 My father hath taken an ooth of me, & sayde: Beholde, I dye, burye me in myne owne graue, which I dygged for myself in the lade of Canaan. Therfore wyl I now go vp, and burye my father, and come agayne. 6 Pharao saide: Go thy waye vp, and burye thy father, acordinge as thou hast sworne vnto him. 7 So Ioseph wete vp, to burye his father. And there wete wt him all Pharaos seruautes yt were the elders of his courte, and all ye elders of the lande of Egipte, 8 & all Iosephs housholde, and his brethren, and his fathers housholde. Onely their children, shepe & oxen left they in ye lade of Gosen, 9 & toke their iourney vp with him, vpo charettes and horses, and the company was exceadinge greate. 10 Now whan these came to the playne of Atad yt lyeth beyonde Iordane, they made there a very greate and bytter lamentacion, & he mourned for his father seue dayes.
  • Lev 19:32 : 32 Thou shalt ryse vp before a graye heade, and shalt geue reuerence vnto the aged. For thou shalt feare God: for I am ye LORDE.
  • Job 15:10 : 10 With vs are olde and aged men, yee soch as haue lyued longer then thy forefathers.

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    2 before the Sonne, ye light, ye Moone and the starres be darckened, and or the cloudes turne agayne after the rayne:

    3 when the kepers of the house shall tremble, and when the stronge men shal bowe them selues: when the Myllers stonde still because they be so fewe, and when the sight of the wyndowes shal waxe dymme:

    4 whan the dores in the stretes shal be shutt, and whan ye voyce of the Myller shall be layed downe: whan men shall ryse vp at the voyce of the byrde, and whan all ye doughters of musyck shalbe brought lowe:

  • 12 The grape gatherers shal make greate mone, when the vynyarde & fygetrees be so vtterly waisted. Yee all the pomgarnettes, palmtrees, apletrees, & the other trees of the felde shall wyther awaye. Thus the mery cheare of the children of men, shal come to confucion.

  • 11 Yee that thou mourne not at the last (when thou hast spent thy body and goodes)

  • 2 He cometh vp, and falleth awaye like a floure. He flyeth as it were a shadowe, and neuer continueth in one state.

  • 4 And as for the faydinge floure, the glory of his pompe, which is vpon the toppe of the plenteous valley: it shal happen vnto him, as to an vntymely frute before the haruest come. Which as soone as it is sene, is by and by deuoured, or euer it come well in a mans honde.

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    10 But as for man, when he is deed, perished and consumed awaye, what becommeth of him?

    11 The floudes when they be dryed vp, & the ryuers when they be emptie, are fylled agayne thorow the flowinge waters of the see:

    12 but when man slepeth, he ryseth not agayne, vntill the heauen perish: he shal not wake vp ner ryse out of his slepe.

  • 14 so that from hence forth, no tre in the water shall attayne to his hyenesse, nor reach his toppe vnto the cloudes, nether shall eny tre off the water stonde so hye, as he hath done. For vnto death shall they all be delyuered vnder the earth, and go downe to ye graue, like other men.

  • 22 His soule draweth on to destruccion, & his life to death.

  • 2 It is better to go in to an house of mournynge, then in to a bancket house. For there is the ende of all men, and he that is lyuinge, taketh it to herte.

  • 27 euen whe ye thinge that ye be afrayed of, falleth in sodenly like a storme, and yor misery like a tempest: yee wha trouble and heuynesse cometh vpon you.

  • 26 Thou shalt come to thy graue in a fayre age, like as ye corne sheeues are brought in to the barne in due season.

  • 4 How longe shall the londe mourne, and all the herbes off the felde perish, for the wickednes off them that dwell therin? The catell and the byrdes are gone, yet saye they: tush, God will not destroye vs vtterly.

  • 17 For the fyge trees shal not be grene, & the vynes shal beare no frute. The laboure of ye olyue shalbe but lost, and the londe shall bringe no corne: the shepe shalbe taken out of ye folde, and there shalbe no catell in ye stalles.

  • 11 The Sonne ryseth wt heat and the grasse wydereth, & his floure falleth awaye, and the beautie of the fassion of it perissheth: euen so shal the ryche man perisshe with his abundaunce.

  • 12 No: but (or euer it be shot forth, and or euer it be gathered) it wythereth, before eny other herbe.

  • 4 The earth shalbe heuye and decaye: The face of ye earth shal perish & fal awaye, the proude people of ye worlde shal come to naught,

  • 8 Yf a man lyue many yeares, and be glad in them all, let him remembre the dayes of darcknesse, which shalbe many: & when they come, all thinges shalbe but vanite.

  • 33 The shal he be fayne to be buried amoge the stones by the broke syde. All men must folowe him, & there are innumerable gone before him.

  • 15 All flesh shal come together vnto naught, & all me shal turne agayne vnto earth.

  • 12 Ye shal knock vpo youre brestes, because of the pleasaunt felde, and because of the fruteful vynyarde.

  • 20 They go all vnto one place, for as they be all of dust, so shal they all turne vnto dust againe.

  • 15 The ioye of oure herte is gone, oure mery quere is turned in to mourninge.

  • 16 This is a miserable plage, yt he shal go awaye euen as he came. What helpeth it him then, yt he hath labored in the wynde?

  • 12 Longe tarienge for a thinge that is dyfferred, greueth ye herte: but when the desyre commeth, it is a tre of life.

  • 6 And in those dayes shal me seke deeth, and shal not fynde it: and shal desyre to dye, and death shal flye from them.

  • 16 All that I haue, shall go downe in to the pytt, & lye with me in the dust.

  • 26 Now slepe they both a like in the earth, & the wormes couer them.

  • 12 For who knoweth what is good for man lyuynge, in ye dayes of his vayne life, which is but a shadowe? Or, who wil tell a man, what shal happen after him vnder the Sonne?

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    16 For as soone as the wynde goeth ouer it, it gone, and the place therof knoweth it nomore.

  • 17 The sede shal perish in the grounde, the garners shall lye waist, the floores shalbe broken downe, for the corne shalbe destroied.

  • 4 Man is like a thinge of naught, his tyme passeth awaye like a shadowe.

  • 30 ye shalbe as an oke whose leaues are fallen awaye, and as a garden that hath no moystnesse.

  • 17 All hondes shalbe letten downe, and all knees shalbe weake as the water:

  • 13 They spende their dayes in welthynesse: but sodenly they go downe to hell.

  • 5 And I sayde: O that I had wynges like a doue, that I might fle somwhere, and be at rest.

  • 12 Neuerthelesse ma abydeth not insoch honor, but is copared vnto ye brute beastes, & becometh like vnto the.

  • 20 They shalbe destroyed from the mornynge vnto the euenynge: yee they shall perish, or euer they be awarre:

  • 13 For it shal happen vnto all londes and to all people, like as when a ma smyteth downe ye olyues, yt are left vpon the tre: or seketh after grapes, when the wyne gatheringe is out.

  • 9 the desolate earth is in heuynes. Libanus taketh it but for a sporte, that it is hewen downe: Saron is like a wyldernes: Basa & Charmel are turned vpside downe.

  • 6 Yee though he lyued two thousande yeares, yet hath he no good life. Come not all to one place?

  • 21 (Which longe for death, and it commeth not: for yf they might fynde their graue,

  • 10 I thought I shulde haue gone to the gates of hell in my best age, and haue wanted the residue of my yeares.