Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
and the moon and the stars,
and the clouds return after
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:
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,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
before the sun, the light, the moon and stars be darkened, and or the clouds turn again after the 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
So remember your Creator in the days of your youth:
and the years approach when you will say,
“I have no delight in them”;
and the moon and the stars,
and the clouds return after
and the strong men stoop,
the women who grind cease because they are few,
and the ones who watch through the windows see dimly,
Cross References
Genesis 27:1
When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could not see,
And he answered, “Here I am.”
Genesis 48:10
Now his eyesight was poor because of old age; he could hardly
1 Samuel 3:2
One day Eli, whose eyesight was failing,
1 Samuel 4:15
At that time Eli was 98 years old, and his gaze was fixed
1 Samuel 4:18
When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell backward off the chair by the city gate,
Psalm 42:7
all Your breakers and Your billows have swept over me.
Psalm 71:20
many troubles and misfortunes,
but You will revive me again.
You will bring me up again,
even from the depths of the earth.
Psalm 77:16
The waters saw You; they trembled.
Even the depths shook.
Ecclesiastes 11:7-8
and it is pleasing for the eyes to see the sun.
Isaiah 5:30
like the roaring of the sea.
When one looks at the land,
there will be darkness and distress;
light will be obscured by clouds.
Ezekiel 32:7-8
I will cover the heavens
and darken their stars.
I will cover the sun with a cloud,
and the moon will not give its light.