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,

New Revised Standard Version
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.

Contemporary English Version
or lie awake worrying about our work, and so we get little rest. We see ourselves running for our lives,

New American Bible
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A little and as nothing is his rest, and afterward in sleep, as in the day of keeping watch.

A little and as nothing is his rest, and afterward in sleep, as in the day of keeping watch.

Sirach 40:4
From him that weareth purple, and beareth the crown, even to him that is covered with rough linen: wrath, envy, trouble, unquietness, and the fear of death, continual anger, and strife,

Sirach 40:5
And in the time of rest upon his bed, the sleep of the night changeth his knowledge.

Sirach 40:7
He is troubled in the vision of his heart, as if he had escaped in the day of battle. In the time of his safety he rose up, and wondereth that there is no fear.

Sirach 40:8
Such things happen to all flesh, from man even to beast, and upon sinners are sevenfold more.