Ecclesiastes 12:2
While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
Ecclesiastes 12:2 in other translations
| BSB | before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is darkened, and the clouds return after the rain, |
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| WEB | Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain; |
| ASV | before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain; |
| YLT | While that the sun is not darkened, and the light, And the moon, and the stars, And the thick clouds returned after the rain. |
| DARBY | before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, be darkened, and the clouds return after the rain; |
| BBE | While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not dark, and the clouds come not back after the rain; |
| Webster | While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain: |
What does Ecclesiastes 12:2 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ecclesiastes 12:1-7
A description of the infirmities of age. (Eccl. 12:1-7) All is vanity: also a warning of the judgment to come. (Eccl. 12:8-14) Verses 1-7 We should remember our sins against our Creator, repent, and seek forgiveness. We should remember our duties, and set about them, looking to him for grace and strength. This should be done early, while the body is strong, and the spirits active. When a man has the pain of…
Ecclesiastes 12:2 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Ecclesiastes 12:2
- Isaiah 5:30
And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
- 1 Samuel 4:15
Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see.
- 1 Samuel 4:18
And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the 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 3:2
And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place, and his eyes began to wax dim, that he could not see;
- Ezekiel 32:7-8
And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light. All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord God.
- Psalms 77:16
The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.
- Psalms 42:7
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
- Psalms 71:20
Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
- 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 eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I.
- Ecclesiastes 11:7-8
Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun: But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.
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Context
- Ecclesiastes 12:1
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
- Ecclesiastes 12:2
While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
- Ecclesiastes 12:3
In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,
Ecclesiastes 12:2 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Antes que se oscurezca el sol, y la luz, y la luna y las estrellas, y las nubes se tornen tras la lluvia: |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | avant que s’obscurcissent le soleil, et la lumière, et la lune, et les étoiles, et que les nuages reviennent après la pluie; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | ehe sich verfinstern die Sonne und das Licht, und der Mond und die Sterne, und die Wolken nach dem Regen wiederkehren; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | antequam tenebrescat sol, et lumen, et luna, et stellæ, et revertantur nubes post pluviam; |