While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsbefore the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;
before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is darkened, and the clouds return after the rain,
While that the sun is not darkened, and the light, And the moon, and the stars, And the thick clouds returned after the rain.
before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, be darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentEcclesiastes — Qohelet the Preacher — ''vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'' The book's relentless examination of life under the sun, resolving not in despair but in ''fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.''
- Author
- Traditional: Solomon (''son of David, king in Jerusalem''). Critical: a later Qohelet figure writing in Solomonic persona. §7.9 surfaces; Pastor Marc's drawer carries the position.
- Date
- Solomonic reading: c. 940 BC. Critical reading: Persian or early Hellenistic period (5th–3rd century BC).