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Ecclesiastes 8:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

16 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:)

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

16 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:)

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Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

16 When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to see the business activity and the painful effort that take place upon the earth–how neither day nor night some men's eyes sleep–

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American Standard Version (1901)

16 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),

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Common English Bible

16 Then I set my mind to know wisdom and to observe the business that happens on earth, even going without sleep day and night

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Catholic Public Domain Version

16 And I applied my heart, so that I might know wisdom, and so that I might understand a disturbance that turns upon the earth: it is a man, who takes no sleep with his eyes, day and night.

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Ecclesiastes 8:16
11 Cross References  

For all his days are but sorrows, and his travail is grief; yea, even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.


And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven: it is a sore travail that God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.


It is vain for you that ye rise up early, and so late take rest, And eat the bread of toil: For so he giveth unto his beloved sleep.


All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man hath power over another to his hurt.


for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?


I turned about, and my heart was set to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason of things, and to know that wickedness is folly, and that foolishness is madness:


The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.


There is one that is alone, and he hath not a second; yea, he hath neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labour, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches. For whom then, saith he, do I labour, and deprive my soul of good? This also is vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.


Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.


I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.


And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also was a striving after wind.


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