Revelation 5:4
World English Bible (WEB)
Then I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book or to look in it.
In context
2 I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the book, and to break its seals?”
3 No one in heaven above, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book or to look in it.
4 Then I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book or to look in it.
5 One of the elders said to me, “Don’t weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome: he who opens the book and its seven seals.”
6 I saw in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.
Revelation 5:4 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- Then I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book or to look in it.
- KJV King James Version
- And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- And I began to weep bitterly, because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or look inside it.
- ASV American Standard Version
- And I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book, or to look thereon:
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And I was weeping much, because no one was found worthy to open and to read the scroll, nor to behold it,
- DBY Darby Translation
- And I wept much because no one had been found worthy to open the book nor to regard it.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open, and to read the book, neither to look upon it.