Ecclesiastes 8:16 - King James 2000

¹⁶ When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is one who neither day nor night sees 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:)

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.

Ecclesiastes 8:16 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 31:40

Thus I was; in the day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night; and my sleep departed from my eyes.

Psalm 127:2

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.

Ecclesiastes 1:13

And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this severe burden has God given to the sons of man to be afflicted with.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and like grasping the wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

And I set my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is like grasping the wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:23

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart takes not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he has neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labor; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither says he, For whom do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a heavy travail.

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 7:25

I applied my heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:

Ecclesiastes 8:7

For he knows not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

Ecclesiastes 8:9

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