Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
It is vain for you to rise up early, to take rest late, to eat the bread of toil, [for] so he gives sleep to his beloved.
New American Standard Bible
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For He gives to His
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 giveth his beloved sleep.
Holman Bible
working hard to have enough food—
yes, He gives sleep to the one He loves.
International Standard Version
It is useless to get up early and to stay up late, eating the food of exhausting labor truly he gives sleep to those he loves.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
It is vain for you to rise early,
To retire late,
To eat the bread of anxious labors—
For He gives [blessings] to His beloved even in his sleep.
Darby Translation
It is vain for you to rise up early, to lie down late, to eat the bread of sorrows: so to his beloved one he giveth sleep.
Julia Smith Translation
In vain for you rising early to arise from after sitting; eating the bread of toils: so will he give to his beloved sleep.
King James 2000
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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[It is] in vain for you who rise early [and] sit late, eating the bread of anxious toil, [when] thus he provides for his beloved in [his] sleep.
Modern King James verseion
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.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
It is but lost labour that ye rise up early, and take no rest, but eat the bread of carefulness; for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
NET Bible
It is vain for you to rise early, come home late, and work so hard for your food. Yes, he can provide for those whom he loves even when they sleep.
New Heart English Bible
It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.
Webster
It is vain for you to rise early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
World English Bible
It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.
Youngs Literal Translation
Vain for you who are rising early, Who delay sitting, eating the bread of griefs, So He giveth to His beloved one sleep.
Themes
forbidden Anxiety » Worldly care » Forbidden
Bread » Kinds of » Bread of affliction
Care » Worldly folly of » Forbidden
Endowments » Spiritual promised » Temporal
Gifts » Presents to men spiritual » Temporal, to men
God » Spiritual promised » Temporal
The Providence of God » Man's efforts are vain without
Topics
References
Hastings
Word Count of 18 Translations in Psalm 127:2
Images Psalm 127:2
Prayers for Psalm 127:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Blessing Of The Lord
1 Unless LORD builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless LORD guards the city, the watchman wake but in vain. 2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to take rest late, to eat the bread of toil, [for] so he gives sleep to his beloved. 3 Lo, sons are a heritage of LORD, [and] the fruit of the womb is [a] reward.
Names
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 5:12
The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the fullness of the rich will not allow him to sleep.
Genesis 3:17-19
And to Adam he said, Because thou have hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shall not eat of it, cursed is the ground for thy sake. In toil thou shall eat of it all
Job 11:18
And thou shall be secure, because there is hope. Yea, thou shall search [about thee], and shall take thy rest in safety.
Psalm 3:5
I laid down and slept. I awoke, for LORD sustains me.
Psalm 4:8
In peace I will both lay down and sleep, for thou, LORD, alone make me dwell in safety.
Psalm 39:5-6
Behold, thou have made my days [as] handbreadths, and my life-time is as nothing before thee. Surely every man at his best condition is altogether vanity. Selah.
Psalm 60:5
That thy beloved ones may be delivered, save with thy right hand, and answer us.
Proverbs 31:15-18
She also rises while it is yet night, and gives food to her household, and their task to her maidens.
Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:1-11
I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure. And, behold, this also was vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2:20-23
Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 6:7
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
Jeremiah 31:26
Upon this I awoke, and beheld, and my sleep was sweet to me.
Ezekiel 34:25
And I will make a covenant of peace with them, and will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land, and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
Acts 12:5-6
Indeed therefore Peter was kept in the prison, but fervent prayer was being made by the church to God for him.