Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
before the sun, the light, the moon and stars be darkened, and or the clouds turn again after the rain;
New American Standard Bible
before the
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:
Holman Bible
and the moon and the stars,
and the clouds return after
International Standard Version
Otherwise, when the sun, daylight, moon, or stars turn dark, or when clouds fail to return after the rain
A Conservative Version
before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain,
American Standard Version
before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;
Amplified
before the sun and the light, and the moon and the stars are darkened [by impaired vision], and the clouds [of depression] return after the rain [of tears];
Bible in Basic English
While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not dark, and the clouds come not back after the rain;
Darby Translation
before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, be darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;
Julia Smith Translation
Till when the sun shall not be darkened, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, and the clouds turned not back after the rain:
King James 2000
While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
Lexham Expanded Bible
Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars darken and the clouds return after the rain.
Modern King James verseion
So long as the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are darkened, or the clouds return after rain,
NET Bible
before the sun and the light of the moon and the stars grow dark, and the clouds disappear after the rain;
New Heart English Bible
Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;
The Emphasized Bible
Or ever be darkened - the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, - and the clouds return after a downpour of rain;
Webster
While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
World English Bible
Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;
Youngs 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.
Themes
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 12:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Advice To The Young: Life Is Short And Then You Die
1 Remember thy maker in thy youth, before the days of adversity come, and or the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, "I have no pleasure in them"; 2 before the sun, the light, the moon and stars be darkened, and or the clouds turn again after the rain; 3 when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and when the strong men shall bow themselves; when the millers stand still, because they be so few, and when the sight of the windows shall wax dim;
Cross References
Genesis 27:1
And it came to pass that Isaac waxed old and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see. Then called he Esau, his eldest son, and said unto him, "My son." And he said unto him, "Here am I."
Genesis 48:10
And the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them to him, and he kissed them and embraced them.
1 Samuel 3:2
And it chanced at that time, that Eli lay in his place, and his eyes began to wax dim that he could not see.
1 Samuel 4:15
Eli was four score and eighteen years old, and his sight failed him that he could not see.
1 Samuel 4:18
And when he made mention of the ark of God, Eli fell from off his stool backward toward the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was old and unwieldy. And he had judged Israel forty years.
Psalm 42:7
One deep calleth another with the voice of thy water-pipes, all thy waves and water floods are gone over me.
Psalm 71:20
O what great troubles and adversities hast thou showed me! And yet didst thou turn and refresh me; yea, and broughtest me from the deep of the earth again.
Psalm 77:16
The waters saw thee, O God; the waters saw thee, and were afraid, the depths were moved.
Ecclesiastes 11:7-8
The light is sweet, and a pleasant thing is it for the eyes to look upon the Sun.
Isaiah 5:30
In that day they shall be so fierce upon them, as the sea. And if we look unto the land, behold, it shall be all darkness and sorrow. If we look to heaven: behold, it shall be dark with careful desperation.
Ezekiel 32:7-8
When thou art put out, I will cover the heaven, and make his stars dim. I will spread a cloud over the Sun, and the moon shall not give her light.