Ecclesiastes 12:2

Geneva Bible (1560)

Whiles the sunne is not darke, nor ye light, nor the moone, nor the starres, nor the cloudes returne after the raine:

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 27:1 : 1 And when Izhak was olde, and his eyes were dimme (so that he coulde not see) he called Esau his eldest sonne, and sayde vnto him, My sonne; he answered him, I am here.
  • Gen 48:10 : 10 (For the eyes of Israel were dimme for age, so that hee coulde not well see) Then he caused them to come to him, & he kissed them and embraced them.
  • 1 Sam 3:2 : 2 And at that time, as Eli lay in his place, his eyes began to waxe dimme that he could not see.
  • 1 Sam 4:15 : 15 (Nowe Eli was fourescore and eighteene yeere olde, and his eyes were dimme that hee could not see)
  • 1 Sam 4:18 : 18 And when he had made mention of the Arke of God, Eli fell from his seate backward by the side of the gate, and his necke was broken, and he dyed: for he was an olde man and heauie: and he had iudged Israel fourtie yeeres.
  • Ps 42:7 : 7 One deepe calleth another deepe by the noyse of thy water spoutes: all thy waues and thy floods are gone ouer me.
  • Ps 71:20 : 20 Which hast shewed me great troubles and aduersities, but thou wilt returne, and reuiue me, and wilt come againe, and take mee vp from the depth of the earth.
  • Ps 77:16 : 16 The waters sawe thee, O God: the waters sawe thee, and were afraide: yea, the depths trembled.
  • Eccl 11:7-8 : 7 Surely the light is a pleasant thing: and it is a good thing to the eyes to see the sunne. 8 Though a man liue many yeeres, and in them all he reioyce, yet hee shall remember the daies of darkenesse, because they are manie, all that commeth is vanitie.
  • Isa 5:30 : 30 And in that day they shal roare vpon them, as the roaring of the sea: and if they looke vnto the earth, beholde darkenesse, and sorowe, and the light shalbe darkened in their skie.
  • Ezek 32:7-8 : 7 And when I shall put thee out, I will couer the heauen, and make the starres thereof darke: I will couer the sunne with a cloude, and the moone shall not giue her light. 8 All the lightes of heauen will I make darke for thee, and bring darkenesse vpon thy lande, sayeth the Lord God.

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    1 Remember nowe thy Creator in the daies of thy youth, whiles the euill daies come not, nor the yeeres approche, wherein thou shalt say, I haue no pleasure in them:

  • Eccl 12:3-4
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    3 When the keepers of ye house shal tremble, & the strong men shal bow them selues, and the grinders shal cease, because they are few, and they waxe darke that looke out by ye windowes:

    4 And the doores shall be shut without by the base sound of the grinding, and he shall rise vp at the voice of the birde: and all the daughters of singing shall be abased.

  • Eccl 11:7-10
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    7 Surely the light is a pleasant thing: and it is a good thing to the eyes to see the sunne.

    8 Though a man liue many yeeres, and in them all he reioyce, yet hee shall remember the daies of darkenesse, because they are manie, all that commeth is vanitie.

    9 Reioyce, O yong man, in thy youth, and let thine heart cheere thee in the dayes of thy youth: and walke in the waies of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but knowe that for all these things, God wil bring thee to iudgement.

    10 Therefore take away griefe out of thine heart, and cause euil to depart from thy flesh: for childehoode and youth are vanitie.

  • Eccl 1:5
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    5 The sunne riseth, and ye sunne goeth downe, and draweth to his place, where he riseth.

  • Job 3:9
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    9 Let the starres of that twilight be dimme through darkenesse of it: let it looke for light, but haue none: neither let it see the dawning of the day,

  • Isa 13:10
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    10 For the starres of heauen and the planets thereof shall not giue their light: the sunne shalbe darkened in his going foorth, and the moone shal not cause her light to shine.

  • Job 37:21
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    21 And nowe men see not the light, which shineth in the cloudes, but the winde passeth and clenseth them.

  • Job 31:26
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    26 If I did behold the sunne, when it shined, or the moone, walking in her brightnes,

  • Job 11:17
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    17 Thine age also shall appeare more cleare then the noone day: thou shalt shine and bee as the morning.

  • Eccl 12:6-7
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    6 Whiles the siluer coarde is not lengthened, nor the golden ewer broken, nor the pitcher broken at the wel, nor the wheele broken at the cisterne:

    7 And dust returne to the earth as it was, and the spirit returne to God that gaue it.

  • Joel 3:15
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    15 The sunne & moone shalbe darkened, and the starres shall withdrawe their light.

  • Job 17:12
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    12 Haue changed the nyght for the day, and the light that approched, for darkenesse.

  • Mark 13:24
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    24 Moreouer in those dayes, after that tribulation, the sunne shall waxe darke, and ye moone shall not giue her light,

  • Jer 13:16
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    16 Giue glory to the Lorde your God before he bring darknes, and or euer your feete stumble in the darke mountaines, and whiles you look for light, he turne it into the shadowe of death and make it as darkenesse.

  • Job 22:11-12
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    11 Or darkenes that thou shouldest not see, & abundance of waters shal couer thee.

    12 Is not God on hie in the heauen? and behold the height of the starres how hie they are.

  • Job 36:32
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    32 He couereth the light with the clouds, and commandeth them to go against it.

  • Ps 121:6
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    6 The sunne shall not smite thee by day, nor the moone by night.

  • Gen 8:22
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    22 Hereafter seede time & haruest, & colde and heate, and sommer and winter, and day and night shal not cease, so long as ye earth remaineth.

  • Job 14:12
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    12 So man sleepeth and riseth not: for hee shall not wake againe, nor be raised from his sleepe till the heauen be no more.

  • Job 25:5
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    5 Behold, he wil giue no light to the moone, and the starres are vncleane in his sight.

  • Job 29:3
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    3 When his light shined vpon mine head: and when by his light I walked thorowe the darkenesse,

  • Eccl 6:12
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    12 (7:2) For who knoweth what is good for man in the life and in the nomber of the dayes of the life of his vanitie, seeing he maketh them as a shadowe? For who can shewe vnto man what shall be after him vnder the sunne?

  • Joel 2:10
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    10 The earth shal tremble before him, ye heauens shal shake, the sunne & the moone shalbe darke, & the starres shal withdraw their shining,

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    12 Yea, the darkenes hideth not from thee: but the night shineth as the day: the darkenes and light are both alike.

  • Eccl 11:4
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    4 He that obserueth ye winde, shall not sow, and he that regardeth the cloudes, shall not reape.

  • Joel 2:31
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    31 The sunne shalbe turned into darkenesse, and the moone into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come.

  • Job 3:4-6
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    4 Let that day bee darkenesse, let not God regarde it from aboue, neyther let the light shine vpon it,

    5 But let darkenesse, and the shadowe of death staine it: let the cloude remayne vpon it, and let them make it fearefull as a bitter day.

    6 Let darkenesse possesse that night, let it not be ioyned vnto the dayes of the yeere, nor let it come into the count of the moneths.

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    6 The light shalbe darke in his dwelling, and his candle shalbe put out with him.

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    14 The cloudes hide him that he can not see, and he walketh in the circle of heauen.

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    7 He commandeth the sunne, & it riseth not: hee closeth vp the starres, as vnder a signet.

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    29 And immediately after ye tribulations of those dayes, shall the sunne be darkened, and the moone shall not giue her light, & the starres shall fal fro heauen, & ye powers of heaue shalbe shake.

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    20 The Sunne shalbe turned into darkenesse, and the moone into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come.

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    7 And when I shall put thee out, I will couer the heauen, and make the starres thereof darke: I will couer the sunne with a cloude, and the moone shall not giue her light.

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    20 Be not carefull in the night, howe he destroyeth the people out of their place.