Ecclesiastes 5:12

American Standard Version (1901)

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 3:24 : 24 When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: Yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
  • Jer 31:26 : 26 Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.
  • Ps 4:8 : 8 In peace will I both lay me down and sleep; For thou, Jehovah, alone makest me dwell in safety.
  • Ps 127:2 : 2 It is vain for you to rise up early, To take rest late, To eat the bread of toil; [For] so he giveth unto his beloved sleep.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 5:13-14
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    13There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, [namely], riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt:

    14and those riches perish by evil adventure; and if he hath begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.

  • Eccl 5:9-11
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    79%

    9Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king [himself] is served by the field.

    10He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

    11When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what advantage is there to the owner thereof, save the beholding [of them] with his eyes?

  • Prov 20:13
    78%

    13Love not sleep, let thou come to poverty; Open thine eyes, [and] thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

  • Ps 127:2
    78%

    2It is vain for you to rise up early, To take rest late, To eat the bread of toil; [For] so he giveth unto his beloved sleep.

  • Prov 24:33-34
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    33[ Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep;

    34So shall thy poverty come as a robber, And thy want as an armed man.

  • Prov 6:9-11
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    9How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

    10[ Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep:

    11So shall thy poverty come as a robber, And thy want as an armed man.

  • Prov 19:15
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    15Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; And the idle soul shall suffer hunger.

  • Eccl 6:2
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    2a man to whom God giveth riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacketh nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but an alien eateth it; this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

  • Job 27:19
    73%

    19He lieth down rich, but he shall not be gathered [to his fathers] ; He openeth his eyes, and he is not.

  • Eccl 6:7
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    7All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

  • Eccl 5:17-20
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    17All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he is sore vexed, and hath sickness and wrath.

    18Behold, that which I have seen to be good and to be comely is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, wherein he laboreth under the sun, all the days of his life which God hath given him: for this is his portion.

    19Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor--this is the gift of God.

    20For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth [him] in the joy of his heart.

  • Eccl 8:16
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    16When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes), [

  • Eccl 2:23-25
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    23For all his days are [but] sorrows, and his travail is grief; yea, even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.

    24There is nothing better for a man [than] that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

    25For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?

  • Jer 31:26
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    26Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.

  • Eccl 4:6
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    6Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and striving after wind.

  • Prov 13:11
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    11Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished; But he that gathereth by labor shall have increase.

  • Prov 10:4
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    4He becometh poor that worketh with a slack hand; But the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

  • Job 33:15
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    15In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falleth upon men, In slumberings upon the bed;

  • Prov 16:26
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    26The appetite of the laboring man laboreth for him; For his mouth urgeth him [thereto] .

  • Prov 22:16
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    16He that oppresseth the poor to increase his [gain], [And] he that giveth to the rich, [shall come] only to want.

  • Prov 3:24
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    24When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: Yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

  • Prov 13:7
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    7There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: There is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great wealth.

  • Prov 4:16
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    16For they sleep not, except they do evil; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

  • Eccl 6:5
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    5moreover it hath not seen the sun nor known it; this hath rest rather than the other:

  • Job 20:18
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    18That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down; According to the substance that he hath gotten, he shall not rejoice.

  • Prov 6:4
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    4Give not sleep to thine eyes, Nor slumber to thine eyelids;

  • Prov 23:4
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    4Weary not thyself to be rich; Cease from thine own wisdom.

  • Prov 13:23
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    23Much food [is in] the tillage of the poor; But there is that is destroyed by reason of injustice.

  • Prov 28:19
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    19He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread; But he that followeth after vain [persons] shall have poverty enough.

  • Eccl 2:21
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    21For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skilfulness; yet to a man that hath not labored therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

  • Prov 13:4
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    4The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing; But the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

  • Deut 24:12
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    12And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge;

  • Job 4:13
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    13In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men,

  • Prov 28:22
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    22he that hath an evil eye hasteth after riches, And knoweth not that want shall come upon him.

  • Ps 37:16
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    16Better is a little that the righteous hath Than the abundance of many wicked.

  • Prov 10:15
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    15The rich man's wealth is his strong city: The destruction of the poor is their poverty.