Charles Spurgeon Commentary Ecclesiastes 12:2

"before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;" — Ecclesiastes 12:2 (ASV)

While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:

As they do in old age, when troubles seem to multiply, and the brightness of life seems to have gone.