And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away. Neither sun nor stars in many days appeared - And consequently they could make no observation; and, having no magnetical needle, could not tell in what direction they were going.
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Acts 27:20
20 And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away.