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:"
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- Job 17:13
"If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness."
Read in chapter → - Job 30:23
"For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 9:17
"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:"
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 16:31
"The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 49:10
"For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others."
Read in chapter → - Job 15:10
"With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father."
Read in chapter → - 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."
Read in chapter → - Genesis 50:3
"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."
Read in chapter → - 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."
Read in chapter → - 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."
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