Catholic Public Domain Version
"Before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain, "
— Ecclesiastes 12:2, Catholic Public Domain Version
“While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:”
“before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain; ”
“Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;”
“before the sun and the light of the moon and the stars grow dark, and the clouds disappear after the rain;”
“Before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars be darkened, and the clouds return after the rain:”
“While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not dark, and the clouds come not back after the rain;”
“While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:”
Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the time of affliction arrives and the years draw near, about which you will say, “These do not please me.”
Before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain,
when the guardians of the house will tremble, and the strongest men will waver, and those who grind grain will be idle, except for a small number, and those who look through the keyholes will be darkened.
And they will close the doors to the street, when the voice of he who grinds the grain will be humbled, and they will be disturbed at the sound of a flying thing, and all the daughters of song shall become deaf.
Likewise, they will fear the things above them, and they will dread the way. The almond tree will flourish; the locust will be fattened; and the caper plant will be scattered, because man shall go into the house of his eternity, and the mourners shall wander around in the street.