Ecclesiastes 5:12
The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance 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 I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.
- Ps 127:2 : 2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
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13 There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
14 But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
- Eccl 5:9-113 verses79%
9 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
10 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
11 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
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13 Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
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2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
- Prov 24:33-342 verses77%
33 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
34 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
- Prov 6:9-113 verses76%
9 How 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:
11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
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15 Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
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2 A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
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19 The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not.
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7 All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
- Eccl 5:17-204 verses73%
17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
18 Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.
19 Every 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 labour; this is the gift of God.
20 For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.
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16 When I applied mine 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 2:23-253 verses72%
23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
24 There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
25 For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?
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26 Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.
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6 Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
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11 Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
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4 He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
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15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;
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26 He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
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16 He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
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24 When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
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7 There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.
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16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
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5 Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.
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18 That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.
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4 Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
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4 Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
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23 Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.
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19 He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.
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21 For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
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4 The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
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12 And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
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13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
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22 He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.
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16 A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.
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15 The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.