Ecclesiastes 12:2
World English Bible (WEB)
Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;
In context
1 Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them;”
2 Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, and 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 who look out of the windows are darkened,
4 and the doors shall be shut in the street; when the sound of the grinding is low, and one shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;
Ecclesiastes 12:2 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;
- KJV 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:
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is darkened, and the clouds return after the rain,
- ASV American Standard Version
- before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;
- YLT Young's 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.
- DBY Darby Translation
- before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, be darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;
- WBS Webster Bible
- While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain: