Ecclesiastes 12:5 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 12:5

5: You will be afraid of heights and of falling, white-haired and withered, dragging along without any sexual desire. You will be standing at death's door. And as you near your everlasting home, the mourners will walk along the streets.

Job 17:13

  1. I might go to the grave and make my bed in darkness.

Job 30:23

  1. And I know that you are sending me to my death--the destination of all who live.

Jeremiah 9:17

  1. This is what the LORD Almighty says: "Think about what is going on! Call for the mourners to come.
  2. Quick! Begin your weeping! Let the tears flow from your eyes.
  3. Hear the people of Jerusalem crying in despair, `We are ruined! Disaster has come upon us! We must leave our land, because our homes have been torn down.'"
  4. Listen, you women, to the words of the LORD; open your ears to what he has to say. Teach your daughters to wail; teach one another how to lament.

Proverbs 16:31

  1. Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained by living a godly life.

Isaiah 46:4

  1. I will be your God throughout your lifetime--until your hair is white with age. I made you, and I will care for you. I will carry you along and save you.

Psalms 71:18

  1. Now that I am old and gray, do not abandon me, O God. Let me proclaim your power to this new generation, your mighty miracles to all who come after me.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

  1. Whatever you do, do well. For when you go to the grave, there will be no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.

Psalms 49:10

  1. Those who are wise must finally die, just like the foolish and senseless, leaving all their wealth behind.
  2. The grave is their eternal home, where they will stay forever. They may name their estates after themselves, but they leave their wealth to others.
  3. They will not last long despite their riches--they will die like the animals.
  4. This is the fate of fools, though they will be remembered as being so wise.
  5. Like sheep, they are led to the grave, where death will be their shepherd. In the morning the godly will rule over them. Their bodies will rot in the grave, far from their grand estates.

Proverbs 20:29

  1. The glory of the young is their strength; the gray hair of experience is the splendor of the old.

Genesis 44:29

  1. If you take away his brother from me, too, and any harm comes to him, you would bring my gray head down to the grave in deep sorrow.'

Leviticus 19:32

  1. "Show your fear of God by standing up in the presence of elderly people and showing respect for the aged. I am the LORD.

Genesis 50:3

  1. The embalming process took forty days, and there was a period of national mourning for seventy days.
  2. When the period of mourning was over, Joseph approached Pharaoh's advisers and asked them to speak to Pharaoh on his behalf.
  3. He told them, "Tell Pharaoh that my father made me swear an oath. He said to me, `I am about to die; take my body back to the land of Canaan, and bury me in our family's burial cave.' Now I need to go and bury my father. After his burial is complete, I will return without delay."
  4. Pharaoh agreed to Joseph's request. "Go and bury your father, as you promised," he said.
  5. So Joseph went, with a great number of Pharaoh's counselors and advisers--all the senior officers of Egypt.

Hebrews 9:27

  1. And just as it is destined that each person dies only once and after that comes judgment,

Jeremiah 1:11

  1. Then the LORD said to me, "Look, Jeremiah! What do you see?" And I replied, "I see a branch from an almond tree."

Job 15:10

  1. On our side are aged, gray-haired men much older than your father!

Genesis 42:38

  1. But Jacob replied, "My son will not go down with you, for his brother Joseph is dead, and he alone is left of his mother's children. If anything should happen to him, you would bring my gray head down to the grave in deep sorrow."

Mark 5:38

  1. When they came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw the commotion and the weeping and wailing.
  2. He went inside and spoke to the people. "Why all this weeping and commotion?" he asked. "The child isn't dead; she is only asleep."

Genesis 44:31

  1. When he sees that the boy is not with us, our father will die. We will be responsible for bringing his gray head down to the grave in sorrow.
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