Psalm 127:2 - Modern King James Version

It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows; for so He gives His beloved sleep.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: For so he giveth his beloved sleep.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

It is vain for you to rise up early, to take rest late, to eat the bread of [anxious] toil–for He gives [blessings] to His beloved in sleep.

American Standard Version (1901)

It is vain for you to rise up early, To take rest late, To eat the bread of toil; For so he giveth unto his beloved sleep.

Common English Bible

It is pointless that you get up early and stay up late, eating the bread of hard labor because God gives sleep to those he loves.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For you will eat by the labors of your hands. Blessed are you, and it will be well with you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee.

Psalm 127:2 Tagairtí Cros

Job 11:18

And you shall be safe, because there is hope; yea, you shall look around you, and you shall take your rest in safety.

Psalm 3:5

I laid down and slept. I awoke, for Jehovah kept me.

Psalm 4:8

I will lie down, both in peace and in sleep. For You alone, Jehovah, make me dwell in safety.

Psalm 60:5

Save with Your right hand and answer me, that Your beloved may be delivered.

Proverbs 10:22

The blessing of Jehovah itself makes rich, and He adds no sorrow with it.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he has neither son nor brother; yet there is no end to all his labor; and his eyes are not satisfied with riches; and he says , For whom do I labor and take good from my soul? This is also vanity. Yes, it is an evil business.

Ecclesiastes 5:12

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

Ecclesiastes 6:7

All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

Jeremiah 31:26

On this I awoke and looked up; and my sleep was sweet to me.

Ezekiel 34:25

And I will make a covenant of peace with them, and will send the evil beasts out of the land. And they shall dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.