Ecclesiastes 12:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return with the rain;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² 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

² 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)

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

Common English Bible

² 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

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

Ecclesiastes 12:2 Cross References

Isaiah 5:30

They will roar over it on that day, like the roaring of the sea. And if one look to the land— only darkness and distress; and the light grows dark with its clouds.

1 Samuel 4:18

When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell over backward from his seat by the side of the gate, and his neck was broken, and he died, for he was an old man and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.

1 Samuel 4:15

Now Eli was ninety-eight years old, and his eyes were set, so that he could not see.

Psalm 77:16

When the waters saw you, O God, when the waters saw you, they were afraid; the very deep trembled.

Psalm 71:20

You who have made me see many troubles and calamities will revive me again; from the depths of the earth you will bring me up again.

Psalm 42:7

Deep calls to deep at the thunder of your torrents; all your waves and your billows have gone over me.

1 Samuel 3:2

At that time Eli, whose eyesight had begun to grow dim so that he could not see, was lying down in his room;

Genesis 48:10

Now the eyes of Israel were dim with age, and he could not see well. So Joseph brought them near him, and he kissed them and embraced them.

Genesis 27:1

When Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called his elder son Esau and said to him, “My son,” and he answered, “Here I am.”

Matthew 24:29

“Immediately after the suffering of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven will be shaken.

Psalm 90:10

The days of our life are seventy years or perhaps eighty, if we are strong; even then their span is only toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.

Isaiah 13:10

For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising, and the moon will not shed its light.

Joel 3:15

The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.