New Revised Standard Version
For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on it, and the covering too narrow to wrap oneself in it.

Contemporary English Version
Your bed is too short, your blanket too skimpy.

New American Bible
For the bed shall be too short to stretch out in, and the cover too narrow to wrap in.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the bed is straitened, so that one must fall out, and a short covering cannot cover both.

For the bed is straitened, so that one must fall out, and a short covering cannot cover both.

the bed

Isaiah 57:12,13 I will declare thy justice, and thy works shall not profit thee. . . .

Isaiah 59:5,6 They have broken the eggs of asps, and have woven the webs of spiders: he that shall eat of their eggs, shall die: and that which is brought out, shall be hatched into a basilisk. . . .

Isaiah 64:6 And we are all become as one unclean, and all our justices as the rag of a menstruous woman: and we have all fallen as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Isaiah 66:3-6 He that sacrificeth an ox, is as if he slew a man: he that killeth a sheep in sacrifice, as if he should brain a dog: he that offereth an oblation, as if he should offer swine's blood; he that remembereth incense, as if he should bless an idol. All these things have they chosen in their ways, and their soul is delighted in their abominations. . . .

Jeremiah 7:8-10 Behold you put your trust in lying words, which shall not profit you: . . .

Romans 9:30-32 What then shall we say? That the Gentiles who followed not after justice have attained to justice, even the justice that is of faith. . . .

1 Corinthians 1:18-31 For the word of the cross, to them indeed that perish, is foolishness: but to them that are saved, that is, to us, it is the power of God. . . .