Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Ecclesiastes 12:2
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before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is darkened, and the clouds return after the rain,
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While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
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Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;
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before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;
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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,
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