Other translations
New Catholic Bible
No fire had sufficient intensity to provide them with light, nor was the blazing brilliance of the stars sufficient to illumine the somber night.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
And no power of fire was able to give light, nor did the brilliant flames of the stars avail to illumine that hateful night.
Good News Translation®
No fire had power to give them light, and the brilliant stars could do nothing to relieve that deathly darkness.
Wycliffe Bible
And soothly no might of fire might give light to them, and the clear flames of stars might not lighten that hideous night. [And no strength forsooth of the fire might to them give light, nor the clear flames of the stars might lighten that grisly-ful night.]
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
And no power of fire was able to give light, nor did the brilliant flames of the stars avail to illumine that hateful night.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
And no power of fire was able to give light, nor did the brilliant flames of the stars avail to illumine that hateful night.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
And no power of fire was able to give light, nor did the brilliant flames of the stars avail to illumine that hateful night.
Common English Bible © 2011
No fire gave them any light, nor did the stars’ light shine brightly enough to illumine that horrible night.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
No fire had force enough to give light, nor did the flaming brilliance of the stars succeed in lighting up that gloomy night.
Revised Standard Version
And no power of fire was able to give light, nor did the brilliant flames of the stars avail to illumine that hateful night.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
And no power of fire was able to give light, nor did the brilliant flames of the stars avail to illumine that hateful night.