Ecclesiastes 12:2 - Revised Version 1885

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

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened [sight is impaired], and the clouds [of depression] return after the rain [of tears];

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

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

Catholic Public Domain Version

Before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Ecclesiastes 12:2 Cross References