Holy Scripture

Ecclesiastes 12:2

A church father on this verse
“"While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain. "If we take this from the creation of the world, this chapter agrees with the words of the Lord, in which He says, "there will be trouble and difficulty as there has not been since the beginning of creation,…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Ecclesiastes

Source: Septuagint

Original

2While the sun and light are not darkened, Nor the moon and the stars; Nor the clouds return after the rain:

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1And remember thy Creator In the days of thy youth, Before the days of evil come, And the years overtake thee in which thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them.

— Ecclesiastes 12:2 —

3In the day wherein the keepers of the house shall tremble, And the mighty men shall become bent, And the grinding women cease because they have become few, And the women looking out at the windows be dark;

4And they shall shut the doors in the marketplace, Because of the weakness of the voice of her that grinds at the mill; And he shall rise up at the voice of the sparrow, And all the daughters of song shall be brought low;

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