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Vulgate (Latin)   
modicum tamquam nihil in requie et ab eo in somnis quasi in die respectus

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Other translations
New Catholic Bible   
He receives little if any rest, struggling while he dreams as he does when he is awake. Terrified by nightmares, he is like someone who has fled from the battlefield.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
He gets little or no rest; he struggles in his sleep as he did by day. He is troubled by the visions of his mind like one who has escaped from the battlefield.
Good News Translation®   
We get little rest, if any at all. When we sleep, it is as if we were awake, disturbed by our imaginations. If we dream that we are running from an enemy,
Wycliffe Bible   
Forsooth a little is as nought in rest; beholding is of him in sleep as in the day. He is disturbed (or troubled) in the sight of his heart, as he that escapeth [or (that) escaped] in the day of battle.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
He gets little or no rest, and afterward in his sleep, as though he were on watch, he is troubled by the visions of his mind like one who has escaped from the battle-front;
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
He gets little or no rest; he struggles in his sleep as he did by day. He is troubled by the visions of his mind like one who has escaped from the battlefield.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
He gets little or no rest; he struggles in his sleep as he did by day. He is troubled by the visions of his mind like one who has escaped from the battlefield.
Common English Bible © 2011   
They get little or no rest; they even toil in their dreams, just as they do in the day, being troubled by images in their mind, as one who escapes from war.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
So short is his rest it seems like none, till in his dreams he struggles as he did by day, Troubled by the visions of his mind, like a fugitive fleeing from the pursuer.
Revised Standard Version   
He gets little or no rest, and afterward in his sleep, as though he were on watch, he is troubled by the visions of his mind like one who has escaped from the battle-front;
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
He gets little or no rest; he struggles in his sleep as he did by day. He is troubled by the visions of his mind like one who has escaped from the battlefield.