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Ecclesiastes 12:2

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12:2before the sun and the light4 of the moon and the stars grow dark,

and the clouds disappear5 after the rain;

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Footnotes

  1. 4 Heb “the light and the moon and the stars.” The phrase “the light and the moon” is a hendiadys (two separate terms denoting one idea) or perhaps even a hendiatris (three separate terms denoting one idea) for “the light of the moon and stars” (e.g., Gen 1:14).
  2. 5 The verb שׁוּב (shuv, “to return”) here denotes “to desist” ( שׁוּב 3). It pictures the disappearance of the clouds as a result of the precipitation of their contents.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain,

NIVNew International Version (2011)

before the sun and the light

and the moon and the stars grow dark,

and the clouds return after the rain;

CSBChristian Standard Bible

before the sun and the light are darkened,

and the moon and the stars,

and the clouds return after the rain;

NLTNew Living Translation

Remember him before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is dim to your old eyes, and rain clouds continually darken your sky.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars darken

and the clouds return after the rain.

KJV 1900King James Version

While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain: