Ecclesiastes 8:16 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁶ When I applied my mind to know wisdom  and to observe the activity that is done on the earth (even though one’s eyes do not close in sleep day or night),

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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:)

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–

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),

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

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ 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.

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Genesis 31:40

There I was #– #the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

I applied my mind to examine  and explore through wisdom all that is done under heaven.  God has given people  this miserable task to keep them occupied.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the things that are done under the sun and have found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.  ,

Ecclesiastes 1:17

I applied my mind to know wisdom and knowledge,  madness and folly;  I learned that this too is a pursuit of the wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:23

For all his days are filled with grief, and his occupation is sorrowful;  even at night, his mind does not rest.  This too is futile.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is a person without a companion,  without even a son or brother, and though there is no end to all his struggles, his eyes are still not content with riches.  ‘Who am I struggling for,’ he asks, ‘and depriving myself of good things? ’ This too is futile and a miserable task.

Ecclesiastes 5:12

The sleep of the worker is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich permits him no sleep.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I turned my thoughts to know, explore, and examine wisdom  and an explanation for things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity and folly is madness.

Ecclesiastes 8:7

Yet no one knows what will happen  because who can tell him what will happen?

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this I have seen, applying my mind to all the work that is done under the sun, at a time when one person has authority over another to his harm.