Ecclesiastes 12:5
Good News Translation
You will be afraid of high places, and walking will be dangerous. Your hair will turn white; you will hardly be able to drag yourself along, and all desire will be gone. We are going to our final resting place, and then there will be mourning in the streets.

New Revised Standard Version
when one is afraid of heights, and terrors are in the road; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along and desire fails; because all must go to their eternal home, and the mourners will go about the streets;

Contemporary English Version
You will be afraid to climb up a hill or walk down a road. Your hair will turn as white as almond blossoms. You will feel lifeless and drag along like an old grasshopper. We each go to our eternal home, and the streets here are filled with those who mourn.

New American Bible
When one is afraid of heights, and perils in the street; When the almond tree blooms, and the locust grows sluggish and the caper berry is without effect, Because mortals go to their lasting home, and mourners go about the streets;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they shall fear high things, and they shall be afraid in the way, the almond tree shall flourish, the locust shall be made fat, and the caper tree shall be destroyed: because man shall go into the house of his eternity, and the mourners shall go round about in the street.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they shall fear high things, and they shall be afraid in the way, the almond tree shall flourish, the locust shall be made fat, and the caper tree shall be destroyed: because man shall go into the house of his eternity, and the mourners shall go round about in the street.

the almond

Genesis 42:38 But he said: My son shall not go down with you: his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if any mischief befall him in the land to which you go, you will bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to hell.

Genesis 44:29,31 If you take this also, and any thing befall him in the way, you will bring down my grey hairs with sorrow unto hell. . . .

Leviticus 19:32 Rise up before the hoary head, and honour the person of the aged man: and fear the Lord thy God. I am the Lord.

Job 15:10 There are with us also aged and ancient men, much elder than thy fathers.

Psalm 71:18 And unto old age and grey hairs: O God, forsake me not, Until I shew forth thy arm to all the generation that is to come: Thy power,

Proverbs 16:31 Old age is a crown of dignity, when it is found in the ways of justice.

Proverbs 20:29 The joy of young men is their strength: and the dignity of old men, their grey hairs.

Isaiah 46:4 Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel who are carried by my bowels, are borne up by my womb.

Jeremiah 1:11 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said: I see a rod watching.

because

Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening.

Job 17:13 If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness.

Job 30:23 I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is appointed for every one that liveth.

Psalm 49:10-14 He shall not see destruction, when he shall see the wise dying: the senseless and the fool shall perish together: And they shall leave their riches to strangers: . . .

Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment:

the mourners

Genesis 50:3-10 And while they were fulfilling his commands, there passed forty days: for this was the manner with bodies that were embalmed, and Egypt mourned for him seventy days. . . .

Jeremiah 9:17-20 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, and let them come: and send to them that are wise women, and let them make haste: . . .

Mark 5:38,39 And they cone to the house of the ruler of the synagogue; and he seeth a tumult, and people weeping and wailing much. . . .

Context
Remember Your Creator
4And they shall shut the doors in the street, when the grinder's voice shall be low, and they shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music shall grow deaf. 5And they shall fear high things, and they shall be afraid in the way, the almond tree shall flourish, the locust shall be made fat, and the caper tree shall be destroyed: because man shall go into the house of his eternity, and the mourners shall go round about in the street.6Before the silver cord be broken, and the golden fillet shrink back, and the pitcher be crushed at the fountain, and the wheel be broken upon the cistern,…
Cross References
Genesis 50:10
And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is situated beyond the Jordan: where celebrating the exequies with a great and vehement lamentation, they spent full seven days.

Job 17:13
If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness.

Job 30:23
I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is appointed for every one that liveth.

Jeremiah 9:17
Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, and let them come: and send to them that are wise women, and let them make haste:

Ecclesiastes 12:4
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