Ecclesiastes 12:2

New Living Translation

Remember him before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is dim to your old eyes, and rain clouds continually darken your sky.

Cross References

Genesis 27:1

One day when Isaac was old and turning blind, he called for Esau, his older son, and said, “My son.” “Yes, Father?” Esau replied.

Genesis 48:10

Jacob was half blind because of his age and could hardly see. So Joseph brought the boys close to him, and Jacob kissed and embraced them.

Psalm 42:7

I hear the tumult of the raging seas as your waves and surging tides sweep over me.

Psalm 71:20

You have allowed me to suffer much hardship, but you will restore me to life again and lift me up from the depths of the earth.

Psalm 77:16

When the Red Sea saw you, O God, its waters looked and trembled! The sea quaked to its very depths.

Psalm 90:10

Seventy years are given to us! Some even live to eighty. But even the best years are filled with pain and trouble; soon they disappear, and we fly away.

Isaiah 13:10

The heavens will be black above them; the stars will give no light. The sun will be dark when it rises, and the moon will provide no light.

Isaiah 5:30

They will roar over their victims on that day of destruction like the roaring of the sea. If someone looks across the land, only darkness and distress will be seen; even the light will be darkened by clouds.

Joel 3:15

The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will no longer shine.

Matthew 24:29

“Immediately after the anguish of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will give no light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.

1 Samuel 3:2

One night Eli, who was almost blind by now, had gone to bed.

1 Samuel 4:15

who was ninety-eight years old and blind.

1 Samuel 4:18

When the messenger mentioned what had happened to the Ark of God, Eli fell backward from his seat beside the gate. He broke his neck and died, for he was old and overweight. He had been Israel’s judge for forty years.