Parallel Verses
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 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.
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.
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.
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 A song of ascents, by Solomon. If the Lord does not build a house, then those who build it work in vain. If the Lord does not guard a city, then the watchman stands guard in vain. 2 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. 3 Yes, sons are a gift from the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward.
Names
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 5:12
The sleep of the laborer is pleasant -- whether he eats little or much -- but the wealth of the rich will not allow him to sleep.
Genesis 3:17-19
But to Adam he said, "Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat from it,' cursed is the ground thanks to you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
Job 11:18
And you will be secure, because there is hope; you will be protected and will take your rest in safety.
Psalm 3:5
I rested and slept; I awoke, for the Lord protects me.
Psalm 4:8
I will lie down and sleep peacefully, for you, Lord, make me safe and secure.
Psalm 39:5-6
Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.
Psalm 60:5
Deliver by your power and answer me, so that the ones you love may be safe.
Proverbs 31:15-18
She also gets up while it is still night, and provides food for her household and a portion to her female servants.
Ecclesiastes 1:14
I reflected on everything that is accomplished by man on earth, and I concluded: Everything he has accomplished is futile -- like chasing the wind!
Ecclesiastes 2:1-11
I thought to myself, "Come now, I will try self-indulgent pleasure to see if it is worthwhile." But I found that it also is futile.
Ecclesiastes 2:20-23
So I began to despair about all the fruit of my labor for which I worked so hard on earth.
Ecclesiastes 4:8
A man who is all alone with no companion, he has no children nor siblings; yet there is no end to all his toil, and he is never satisfied with riches. He laments, "For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?" This also is futile and a burdensome task!
Ecclesiastes 6:7
All of man's labor is for nothing more than to fill his stomach -- yet his appetite is never satisfied!
Jeremiah 31:26
Then they will say, 'Under these conditions I can enjoy sweet sleep when I wake up and look around.'"
Ezekiel 34:25
"'I will make a covenant of peace with them and will rid the land of wild beasts, so that they can live securely in the wilderness and even sleep in the woods.
Acts 12:5-6
So Peter was kept in prison, but those in the church were earnestly praying to God for him.