It was like this with me: by day the heat consumed me and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.
Proverbs 31:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp does not go out at night. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: Her candle goeth not out by night. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition She tastes and sees that her gain from work [with and for God] is good; her lamp goes not out, but it burns on continually through the night [of trouble, privation, or sorrow, warning away fear, doubt, and distrust]. American Standard Version (1901) She perceiveth that her merchandise is profitable; Her lamp goeth not out by night. Common English Bible She realizes that her trading is successful; she doesn’t put out her lamp at night. Catholic Public Domain Version She has tasted and seen that her tasks are good; her lamp shall not be extinguished at night. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version She hath tasted and seen that her traffic is good: her lamp shall not be put out in the night. |
It was like this with me: by day the heat consumed me and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.
Their children come to honor, and they do not know it; they are brought low, and it goes unnoticed.
It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil, for he gives sleep to his beloved.
You remember our labor and toil, brothers and sisters; we worked night and day so that we might not burden any of you while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.