Ecclesiastes 12:2

While the sun and light are not darkened, 1 Nor the moon and the stars; 1 Nor the clouds return after the rain: 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In 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:

In Context

1And remember thy Creator 1 In the days of thy youth, 1 Before the days of evil come, 1 And the years overtake thee in which thou shalt say, 1 I have no pleasure in them. 1

3In the day wherein the keepers of the house shall tremble, 1 And the mighty men shall become bent, 1 And the grinding women cease because they have become few, 1 And the women looking out at the windows be dark; 1

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Cross References

Genesis 48:10Now the eyes of Israel were dim through age, and he could not see; and he brought them near to him, and he kissed them, and embraced them.

1 Samuel 4:15Now Eli was ninety years old, and his eyes were fixed, and he saw not.

Psalms 77:16And he brought water out of the rock, 1 And caused waters to flow down as rivers. 1

Isaiah 5:30And he shall roar on account of them in that day, as the sound of the swelling sea; and they shall look to the land, and, behold, there shall be thick darkness in their perplexity.

Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 12:2-8

The Infirmities of Old Age; The Effects of Death. 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, 4… Read the whole commentary →

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