Bible verse
before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is darkened, and the clouds return after the rain,
Ecclesiastes 12:2 · BSB
The verses around it, from Ecclesiastes 12.
1 Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you will say, “I find no pleasure in them,”
2 before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is darkened, and the clouds return after the rain,
3 on the day the keepers of the house tremble and the strong men stoop, when those grinding cease because they are few and those watching through windows see dimly,
4 when the doors to the street are shut and the sound of the mill fades away, when one rises at the sound of a bird and all the daughters of song grow faint,
5 when men fear the heights and dangers of the road, when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper loses its spring, and the caper berry shrivels—for then man goes to his eternal home and mourners walk the streets.
6 Remember Him before the silver cord is snapped and the golden bowl is crushed, before the pitcher is shattered at the spring and the wheel is broken at the well,
KJV
While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor 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;
ERV
or ever the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, be darkened, and the clouds return after the rain:
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