2before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars grow dark, and the clouds return after the rain;


In Context

1 Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, "I find no pleasure in them"-

2 before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars grow dark, and the clouds return after the rain;

3 when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men stoop, when the grinders cease because they are few, and those looking through the windows grow dim;

4 when the doors to the street are closed and the sound of grinding fades; when men rise up at the sound of birds, but all their songs grow faint;

Ecclesiastes 12:2 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:2While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

12:2before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

12:2Before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars be darkened, and the clouds return after the rain:

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:2before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, be darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

12:2or ever the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, be darkened, and the clouds return after the rain:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:2While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:2Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

12:2While that the sun is not darkened, and the light, And the moon, and the stars, And the thick clouds returned after the rain.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:2While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain: