Verse 5

Also of that which is high they are afraid, And of the low places in the way, And the almond-tree is despised, And the grasshopper is become a burden, And want is increased, For man is going unto his home age-during, And the mourners have gone round through the street.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 17:13 : 13 If I wait -- Sheol `is' my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.
  • Job 30:23 : 23 For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And `to' the house appointed for all living.
  • Prov 16:31 : 31 A crown of beauty `are' grey hairs, In the way of righteousness it is found.
  • Jer 9:17-20 : 17 Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Consider ye, and call for mourning women, And they come, And to the wise women send, and they come, 18 And they hasten, and lift up for us a wailing. And run down our eyes do tears, And from our eyelids do waters flow. 19 For -- a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: How have we been spoiled! We have been greatly ashamed, Because we have forsaken the land, Because they have cast down our tabernacles. 20 But hear, ye women, a word of Jehovah, And your ear receiveth a word of His mouth, And teach ye your daughters wailing, and each her neighbour lamentation.
  • Mark 5:38-39 : 38 and he cometh to the house of the chief of the synagogue, and seeth a tumult, much weeping and wailing; 39 and having gone in he saith to them, `Why do ye make a tumult, and weep? the child did not die, but doth sleep;
  • Heb 9:27 : 27 and as it is laid up to men once to die, and after this -- judgment,
  • Prov 20:29 : 29 The beauty of young men is their strength, And the honour of old men is grey hairs.
  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol whither thou art going.
  • Isa 46:4 : 4 Even to old age I `am' He, and to grey hairs I carry, I made, and I bear, yea, I carry and deliver.
  • Jer 1:11 : 11 And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, `What art thou seeing, Jeremiah?' And I say, `A rod of an almond tree I am seeing.'
  • Ps 49:10-14 : 10 For he seeth wise men die, Together the foolish and brutish perish, And have left to others their wealth. 11 Their heart `is': Their houses `are' to the age, Their tabernacles to all generations. They proclaimed their names over the lands. 12 And man in honour doth not remain, He hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off. 13 This their way `is' folly for them, And their posterity with their sayings are pleased. Selah. 14 As sheep for Sheol they have set themselves, Death doth afflict them, And the upright rule over them in the morning, And their form `is' for consumption. Sheol `is' a dwelling for him.
  • Ps 71:18 : 18 And also unto old age and grey hairs, O God, forsake me not, Till I declare Thy strength to a generation, To every one that cometh Thy might.
  • Gen 42:38 : 38 and he saith, `My son doth not go down with you, for his brother `is' dead, and he by himself is left; when mischief hath met him in the way in which ye go, then ye have brought down my grey hairs in sorrow to sheol.'
  • Gen 44:29 : 29 when ye have taken also this from my presence, and mischief hath met him, then ye have brought down my grey hairs with evil to sheol.
  • Gen 44:31 : 31 then it hath come to pass when he seeth that the youth is not, that he hath died, and thy servants have brought down the grey hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to sheol;
  • Gen 50:3-9 : 3 and they fulfil for him forty days, for so they fulfil the days of the embalmed, and the Egyptians weep for him seventy days. 4 And the days of his weeping pass away, and Joseph speaketh unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, `If, I pray you, I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, 5 My father caused me to swear, saying, Lo, I am dying; in my burying-place which I have prepared for myself in the land of Canaan, there dost thou bury me; and now, let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and return;' 6 and Pharaoh saith, `Go up and bury thy father, as he caused thee to swear.' 7 And Joseph goeth up to bury his father, and go up with him do all the servants of Pharaoh, elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, 8 and all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and the house of his father; only their infants, and their flock, and their herd, have they left in the land of Goshen; 9 and there go up with him both chariot and horsemen, and the camp is very great. 10 And they come unto the threshing-floor of Atad, which `is' beyond the Jordan, and they lament there, a lamentation great and very grievous; and he maketh for his father a mourning seven days,
  • Lev 19:32 : 32 `At the presence of grey hairs thou dost rise up, and thou hast honoured the presence of an old man, and hast been afraid of thy God; I `am' Jehovah.
  • Job 15:10 : 10 Both the gray-headed And the very aged `are' among us -- Greater than thy father `in' days.