KJV King James Version
While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
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Ecclesiastes 12:2
While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is darkened, and the clouds return after the rain,
WEB World English Bible
Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;
ASV American Standard Version
before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
While that the sun is not darkened, and the light, And the moon, and the stars, And the thick clouds returned after the rain.
Surrounding context — Ecclesiastes 12
1 Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
3 In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,
4 And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;
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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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
עַ֠דH5704 · adtillאֲשֶׁ֨רH834 · a.sherwhichלֹֽא־H3808 · lonotתֶחְשַׁ֤ךְH2821 · cha.shakhto darkenהַשֶּׁ֙מֶשׁ֙H8121 · she.meshsunוְהָא֔וֹרH216 · orlightוְהַיָּרֵ֖חַH3394 · ya.re.achmoonוְהַכּוֹכָבִ֑יםH3556 · ko.khavstarוְשָׁ֥בוּH7725 · shuvto return: returnהֶעָבִ֖יםH5645 · avcloudאַחַ֥רH310 · a.charafterהַגָּֽשֶׁם׃H1653 · ge.shemrain
Cross-references
Isaiah 5:30And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if [one] look unto the land, behold darkness [and] sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.1 Samuel 4:18And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.1 Samuel 4:15Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see.1 Samuel 3:2And it came to pass at that time, when Eli [was] laid down in his place, and his eyes began to wax dim, [that] he could not see;Psalm 42:7Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.Ezekiel 32:7-8And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.Genesis 27:1And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, [here am] I.Psalm 77:16The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.Psalm 71:20[Thou], which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.Genesis 48:10Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, [so that] he could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.Ecclesiastes 11:7-8Truly the light [is] sweet, and a pleasant [thing it is] for the eyes to behold the sun:
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