Parallel Verses
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:
New American Standard Bible
before the
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,
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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Topics
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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 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; 2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain: 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,
Cross References
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.
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.
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;
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.
Psalm 42:7
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
Psalm 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.
Psalm 77:16
The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.
Ecclesiastes 11:7-8
Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:
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.
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.