Bible Verses Like Ecclesiastes 12:5

“Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:”

 

Bible verses related to Ecclesiastes 12:5 (similar cross-references)


Job 17:13 - If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.   (Verses like Job 17:13)

Job 30:23 - For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.   (Verses like Job 30:23)

Genesis 42:38 - And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.   (Verses like Genesis 42:38)

Genesis 44:29 - And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.   (Verses like Genesis 44:29)

Genesis 44:31 - It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.   (Verses like Genesis 44:31)

Genesis 50:3-10 - And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,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.And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.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,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.And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.   (Verses like Genesis 50:3)

Leviticus 19:32 - Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.   (Verses like Leviticus 19:32)

Job 15:10 - With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.   (Verses like Job 15:10)

Psalms 49:10-14 - For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.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.Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.   (Verses like Psalms 49:10)

Psalms 71:18 - Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.   (Verses like Psalms 71:18)

Proverbs 16:31 - The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.   (Verses like Proverbs 16:31)

Proverbs 20:29 - The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.   (Verses like Proverbs 20:29)

Ecclesiastes 9:10 - Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.   (Verses like Ecclesiastes 9:10)

Isaiah 46:4 - And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.   (Verses like Isaiah 46:4)

Jeremiah 1:11 - Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.   (Verses like Jeremiah 1:11)

Jeremiah 9:17-20 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come: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.For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.   (Verses like Jeremiah 9:17)

Mark 5:38-39 - And he cometh to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly.And when he was come in, he saith unto them, Why make ye this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth.   (Verses like Mark 5:38)

Hebrews 9:27 - And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:   (Verses like Hebrews 9:27)