Ecclesiastes 8:16
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Limitations of Human Wisdom
8:16When I tried71 to gain72 wisdom
and to observe the activity73 on earth—
even though it prevents anyone from sleeping day or night74—
Footnotes
- 71 Heb “I applied my heart.”
- 72 Heb “to know.”
- 73 Heb “and to see the business which is done.”
- 74 Heb “for no one sees sleep with their eyes either day or night.” The construction גַם … כִּי (ki … gam) expresses a concessive sense: “even though” (e.g., Ps 23:4; Prov 22:6; Eccl 4:14; Isa 1:15; Lam 3:8; Hos 8:10; 9:16); cf. גַּם 9; 169 גַּם 6; 473 כִּי 2.c.
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth, how neither day nor night do one’s eyes see sleep,
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the labor that is done on earth—people getting no sleep day or night—
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
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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NLTNew Living Translation
In my search for wisdom and in my observation of people’s burdens here on earth, I discovered that there is ceaseless activity, day and night.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
I applied my mind to know wisdom and to understand the business that is done on earth—how neither day nor night one’s eyes see sleep.
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KJV 1900King James Version
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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