Ecclesiastes 12:2

Youth Death and loss Grief

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;

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,

⁴ And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is darkened, and the clouds return after the rain,
KJV: While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
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;
DARBY: before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, be darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;
BLB: While that the sun is not darkened, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, and the clouds return after the rain,

ÅB: før solen og lyset og månen og stjernene formørkes, og skyene kommer igjen etter regnet -
OTB: før solen og lyset, månen og stjernene blir mørke, og skyene vender tilbake etter regnet;
B1930: før solen og lyset og månen og stjernene formørkes, og skyene kommer igjen efter regnet -

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

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.
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1 Samuel 4:15
Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see.
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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.
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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;
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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.
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Psalms 77:16
The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.
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Psalms 42:7
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
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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.
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