Good News Translation
This was to teach us that we must get up before daybreak to give you thanks, and pray as the sun comes up.

New Revised Standard Version
to make it known that one must rise before the sun to give you thanks, and must pray to you at the dawning of the light;

Contemporary English Version
This shows that we must rise before dawn to pray to you,

New American Bible
To make known that one must give you thanks before sunrise, and turn to you at daybreak.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That it might be known to all, that we ought to prevent the sun to bless thee, and adore thee at the dawning of the light.

That it might be known to all, that we ought to prevent the sun to bless thee, and adore thee at the dawning of the light.

Wisdom 16:26
That thy children, O Lord, whom thou lovedst, might know that it is not the growing of fruits that nourisheth men, but thy word preserveth them that believe in thee.

Wisdom 16:27
For that which could not be destroyed by fire, being warmed with a little sunbeam, presently melted away:

Wisdom 16:29
For the hope of the unthankful shall melt away as the winter's ice, and shall run off as unprofitable water.

Wisdom 17:1
For thy judgments, O Lord, are great, and thy words cannot be expressed: therefore undisciplined souls have erred.