Ecc KazatelPrediker, kapitolahoofdstuk Kniha KazatelHet boek Prediker, kapitolahoofdstuk 8

Prediker 8:16 in verschillende vertalingen

Tsjechisch

BKR A ač jsem se vydal srdcem svým na to, abych moudrost vystihnouti mohl, a vyrozuměti bídě, kteráž bývá na zemi, pro kterouž ani ve dne ani v noci nespí,

Nederlands

Canisius Toen ik mij beijverde, wijsheid te verwerven, En de moeite bezag, die de mens zich op aarde getroost, En hoe dag en nacht zijn ogen geen slaap zien:

Engels

KJV (66 books) +3 When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)

ASV When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes),

BSB +1 When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the task that one performs on the earth — though his eyes do not see sleep in the day or even in the night —

DRA And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to understand the distraction that is upon earth: for there are some that day and night take no sleep with their eyes.

FBV When I applied my mind to discovering wisdom and observing everything people do here on earth, I couldn't get any sleep, day or night.

GNV When I applied mine heart to knowe wisedome, and to behold the busines that is done on earth, that neither day nor night the eyes of man take sleepe,

JPS When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth — for neither day nor night do men see sleep with their eyes —

LSV When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that has been done on the earth (for there is also a spectator in whose eyes sleep is not by day and by night),

NASB When I devoted my mind to know wisdom and to see the business which has been done on the earth (even though one should never sleep day or night), NASB 2020

NIV (US) When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the labor that is done on earth—people getting no sleep day or night—

NIV (UK) When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the labour that is done on earth – people getting no sleep day or night –

NMV When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also [there is that] neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes)

OJB When I applied mine lev to have da'as of chochmah, and to see the business that is done upon ha'aretz, though oneʼs eynayim see sleep neither yom nor lailah,

T4T I thought about being wise and about people who work very hard, working day and night and not taking time to sleep.

WEB (US) +7 When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (even though eyes see no sleep day or night),