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Source language
JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH   
כי לא ישנו אם-לא ירעו ונגזלה שנתם אם-לא יכשולו (יכשילו)
Hebrew - Transliteration via code library   
ky lA ySHnv Am-lA yr`v vngzlh SHntm Am-lA ykSHvlv (ykSHylv)

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
non enim dormiunt nisi malefecerint et rapitur somnus ab eis nisi subplantaverint

King James Variants
American King James Version   
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
King James 2000 (out of print)   
For they sleep not, unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause someone to fall.
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
Authorized (King James) Version   
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
New King James Version   
For they do not sleep unless they have done evil; And their sleep is taken away unless they make someone fall.
21st Century King James Version   
For they sleep not unless they have done mischief, and their sleep is taken away unless they cause some to fall.

Other translations
American Standard Version   
For they sleep not, except they do evil; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English   
They do not sleep until they do evil and their sleep flees away until they do their desires.
Darby Bible Translation   
For they sleep not except they have done mischief, and their sleep is taken away unless they have caused some to fall.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
For they sleep not except they have done evil: and their sleep is taken away unless they have made some to fall.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.
God's Word   
Wicked people cannot sleep unless they do wrong, and they are robbed of their sleep unless they make someone stumble.
Holman Christian Standard Bible   
For they can't sleep unless they have done what is evil; they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone stumble.
International Standard Version   
For they cannot sleep unless they are doing evil, and they are robbed of their sleep unless they cause someone to stumble.
NET Bible   
For they cannot sleep unless they cause harm; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.
New American Standard Bible   
For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; And they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone stumble.
New International Version   
For they cannot rest until they do evil; they are robbed of sleep till they make someone stumble.
New Living Translation   
For evil people can't sleep until they've done their evil deed for the day. They can't rest until they've caused someone to stumble.
Webster's Bible Translation   
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
The World English Bible   
For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
EasyEnglish Bible   
Wicked people have to do evil things. They cannot go to sleep unless they have been cruel to someone that day.
Young‘s Literal Translation   
For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not [some] to stumble.
New Life Version   
For they cannot sleep unless they do wrong. They are robbed of sleep unless they make someone fall.
The Voice Bible   
For evildoers are so twisted they cannot sleep unless they have caused harm; they’ll lie awake all night until they figure out a way to cause someone to stumble.
Living Bible   
for evil men can’t sleep until they’ve done their evil deed for the day. They can’t rest unless they cause someone to stumble and fall.
New Catholic Bible   
For they cannot rest until they have first done wrong; they cannot sleep unless they have made someone stumble.
Legacy Standard Bible   
For they do not sleep unless they do evil; And they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone stumble.
Jubilee Bible 2000   
For they do not sleep, unless they have done evil; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause someone to fall.
Christian Standard Bible   
For they can’t sleep unless they have done what is evil; they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone stumble.
Amplified Bible © 1954   
For they cannot sleep unless they have caused trouble or vexation; their sleep is taken away unless they have caused someone to fall.
New Century Version   
because they cannot sleep until they do evil. They cannot rest until they harm someone.
The Message   
Evil people are restless unless they’re making trouble; They can’t get a good night’s sleep unless they’ve made life miserable for somebody. Perversity is their food and drink, violence their drug of choice.
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
For they cannot sleep unless they have been doing wrong, and they are robbed of sleep unless they are making someone stumble,
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.
Good News Translation®   
Wicked people cannot sleep unless they have done something wrong. They lie awake unless they have hurt someone.
Wycliffe Bible   
For they sleep not, no but they have done evil; and sleep is ravished from them, no but they have deceived simple men. (For they do not sleep, unless first they have done some evil; and sleep is taken from them, unless first they have deceived those who be honest, or have integrity.)
Contemporary English Version   
They can't sleep or rest until they do wrong or harm some innocent victim.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made some one stumble.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.
Common English Bible © 2011   
They don’t sleep unless they do evil; they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone stumble.
Amplified Bible © 2015   
For the wicked cannot sleep unless they do evil; And they are deprived of sleep unless they make someone stumble and fall.
English Standard Version Anglicised   
For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
For they cannot rest unless they have done evil; if they do not trip anyone they lose sleep.
New American Standard Bible   
For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; And they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone stumble.
The Expanded Bible   
because they cannot sleep until they do evil. ·They cannot rest until they harm someone [L They are robbed of sleep unless they cause people to stumble].
Tree of Life Version   
For they cannot sleep until they do evil. They are robbed of sleep until they make someone fall.
Revised Standard Version   
For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made some one stumble.
New International Reader's Version   
Sinners can’t rest until they do what is evil. They can’t sleep until they make someone sin.
BRG Bible   
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
Complete Jewish Bible   
For they can’t sleep if they haven’t done evil, they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone fall.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
For they sleep not, unless they have done evil; and their sheynah (sleep) is robbed, unless they cause some to fall.
Names of God Bible   
Wicked people cannot sleep unless they do wrong, and they are robbed of their sleep unless they make someone stumble.
Modern English Version   
For they do not sleep unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away unless they cause some to fall.
Easy-to-Read Version   
The wicked cannot sleep until they have done something evil. They will not rest until they bring someone down.
International Children’s Bible   
They cannot sleep until they do evil. They cannot rest until they hurt someone.
Lexham English Bible   
For they will not sleep if they have not done wrong, and they are robbed of their sleep if they do not cause stumbling.
New International Version - UK   
For they cannot rest until they do evil; they are robbed of sleep till they make someone stumble.