Ecclesiastes 12:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

And they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and distress, and the light is darkened in the clouds thereof.

1 Samuel 4:18

And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off his 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 4:15

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

Psalm 77:16

The waters saw thee, O God; The waters saw thee, they were afraid: The depths also trembled.

Psalm 71:20

Thou, which hast shewed us many and sore troubles, Shalt quicken us again, And shalt bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

Psalm 42:7

Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

1 Samuel 3:2

And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place, (now his eyes had begun to wax dim, that he could not see,)

Genesis 48:10

Now 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.

Genesis 27:1

And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Here am I.

Matthew 24:29

But immediately, after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

Psalm 90:10

The days of our years are threescore years and ten, Or even by reason of strength fourscore years; Yet is their pride but labour and sorrow; For it is soon gone, and we fly away.

Isaiah 13:10

For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

Joel 3:15

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