Good News Translation
because our mortal bodies weigh our souls down. The body is a temporary structure made of earth, a burden to the active mind.

New Revised Standard Version
for a perishable body weighs down the soul, and this earthy tent burdens the thoughtful mind.

Contemporary English Version
because our mortal bodies are merely earthly tents that burden down our souls and our anxious minds.

New American Bible
For the corruptible body burdens the soul and the earthly tent weighs down the mind with its many concerns.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the corruptible body is a load upon the soul, and the earthly habitation presseth down the mind that museth upon many things.

For the corruptible body is a load upon the soul, and the earthly habitation presseth down the mind that museth upon many things.

Wisdom 9:13
For who among men is he that can know the counsel of God? or who can think what the will of God is?

Wisdom 9:14
For the thoughts of mortal men are fearful, and our counsels uncertain.

Wisdom 9:16
And hardly do we guess aright at things that are upon earth: and with labour do we find the things that are before us. But the things that are in heaven, who shall search out?

Wisdom 9:17
And who shall know thy thought, except thou give wisdom, and send thy holy Spirit from above: