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Source language
JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH   
כאשר נתתי את לבי לדעת חכמה ולראות את הענין אשר נעשה על הארץ כי גם ביום ובלילה--שנה בעיניו איננו ראה
Hebrew - Transliteration via code library   
kASHr ntty At lby ld`t KHkmh vlrAvt At h`nyn ASHr n`SHh `l hArTS ky gm byvm vblylh--SHnh b`ynyv Aynnv rAh

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
et adposui cor meum ut scirem sapientiam et intellegerem distentionem quae versatur in terra est homo qui diebus ac noctibus somnum oculis non capit

King James Variants
American King James Version   
When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes:)
King James 2000 (out of print)   
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:)
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
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:)
Authorized (King 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:)
New King James Version   
When I applied my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that is done on earth, even though one sees no sleep day or night,
21st Century King James Version   
When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also is there that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes),

Other translations
American Standard Version   
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),
Darby Bible Translation   
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),
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
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.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
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:)
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
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,
God's Word   
When I carefully considered how to study wisdom and how to look at the work that is done on earth (even going without sleep day and night),
Holman Christian 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),
International Standard Version   
When I dedicated myself to experience wisdom and to observe what is undertaken on earth—even going without sleep day and night—
NET Bible   
When I tried to gain wisdom and to observe the activity on earth--even though it prevents anyone from sleeping day or night--
New American Standard Bible   
When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the task which has been done on the earth (even though one should never sleep day or night),
New International Version   
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--
New 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.
Webster's Bible Translation   
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:)
The World English Bible   
When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes),
EasyEnglish Bible   
I tried very much to become wise. I wanted to understand the things that people do on the earth. People work in the day and in the night and they do not sleep.
Young‘s Literal Translation   
When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that hath been done on the earth, (for there is also a spectator in whose eyes sleep is not by day and by night),
New Life Version   
I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the work which has been done on the earth, not sleeping day or night.
The Voice Bible   
When I applied myself to the study of wisdom and reflected on the kinds of tasks that occupy people’s attention on earth, I noticed how little sleep they generally get, whether day or night.
Living Bible   
In my search for wisdom I observed all that was going on everywhere across the earth—ceaseless activity, day and night. (Of course, only God can see everything, and even the wisest man who says he knows everything, doesn’t!)
New Catholic Bible   
Having pursued my goal to acquire wisdom and to observe the tasks undertaken on earth by man, whose eyes do not find rest either by day or by night,
Legacy Standard Bible   
When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the endeavor which has been done on the earth (even though one never sees sleep with his eyes day or night),
Jubilee Bible 2000   
Therefore I applied mine heart to know wisdom and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is he that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes).
Christian 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),
Amplified Bible © 1954   
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—
New Century Version   
I tried to understand all that happens on earth. I saw how busy people are, working day and night and hardly ever sleeping.
The Message   
When I determined to load up on wisdom and examine everything taking place on earth, I realized that if you keep your eyes open day and night without even blinking, you’ll still never figure out the meaning of what God is doing on this earth. Search as hard as you like, you’re not going to make sense of it. No matter how smart you are, you won’t get to the bottom of it.
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
When I applied my heart to know wisdom and to observe the tiresome business done on the earth (even though it keeps a person from sleeping day or night),
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
When I applied my mind to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth, how one’s eyes see sleep neither day nor night,
Good News Translation®   
Whenever I tried to become wise and learn what goes on in the world, I realized that you could stay awake night and day
Wycliffe Bible   
And I setted mine heart to know wisdom, and to understand the parting, which is turned in earth. A man is, that by days and nights, taketh not sleep with his eyes. (And I set my heart to know wisdom, and to understand what is done on the earth. And in trying to understand this, a person might not close his eyes in sleep for many days and nights.)
Contemporary English Version   
Day and night I went without sleep, trying to understand what goes on in this world.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
When I applied my mind to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth, how neither day nor night one’s eyes see sleep;
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to see the business that is done on earth, how one’s eyes see sleep neither day nor night,
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
When I applied my mind to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth, how one’s eyes see sleep neither day nor night,
Common English Bible © 2011   
Then I set my mind to know wisdom and to observe the business that happens on earth, even going without sleep day and night
Amplified Bible © 2015   
When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to see the activities [of mankind] that take place upon the earth—how some men seem to sleep neither day nor night—
English Standard Version Anglicised   
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,
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
I applied my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that is done on earth, though neither by day nor by night do one’s eyes see sleep,
New American Standard Bible   
When I devoted my mind to know wisdom and to see the business which has been done on the earth (even though one should never sleep day or night),
The Expanded Bible   
I ·tried to understand [L gave my heart to know] all that happens on earth. ·I saw how busy people are, working day and night and hardly ever sleeping [L No one sleeps day or night].
Tree of Life Version   
When I applied my heart to know wisdom and to observe the activity that is done upon the earth (his eyes not seeing sleep either day or night),
Revised Standard Version   
When I applied my mind to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth, how neither day nor night one’s eyes see sleep;
New International Reader's Version   
I used my mind to understand what it really means to be wise. I wanted to observe the hard work people do on earth. They don’t close their eyes and go to sleep day or night.
BRG Bible   
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:)
Complete Jewish Bible   
When I applied myself to gain wisdom and to observe how people occupy themselves on earth, that people’s eyes don’t see sleep either by day or by night,
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
When I applied my mind to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth, how one’s eyes see sleep neither day nor night,
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
When I applied mine lev to have da’as of chochmah, and to see the business that is done upon ha’aretz, though one’s eynayim see sleep neither yom nor lailah,
Names of God Bible   
When I carefully considered how to study wisdom and how to look at the work that is done on earth (even going without sleep day and night),
Modern English Version   
When I set my heart to know wisdom and to experience the affairs that are done on earth, though day and night there is no sleep for one’s eyes,
Easy-to-Read Version   
I carefully studied the things people do in this life. I saw how busy people are. They work day and night, and they almost never sleep.
International Children’s Bible   
I used my mind to learn about all that happens on earth. I saw how busy people are. They work day and night and hardly ever sleep.
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.
New International Version - UK   
When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the labour that is done on earth – people getting no sleep day or night –