Ecclesiastes 5:12

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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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    13There is a sore evil [which] I have seen under the sun, [namely], riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

    14But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and [there is] nothing in his hand.

  • Eccl 5:9-11
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    9¶ Moreover 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 [is] also vanity.

    11When 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?

  • Prov 20:13
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    13¶ Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, [and] thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

  • Ps 127:2
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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 24:33-34
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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] one that travelleth; 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 one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

  • Prov 19:15
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    15¶ Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

  • Eccl 6:2
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    2A 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.

  • Job 27:19
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    19The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he [is] not.

  • Eccl 6:7
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    7¶ All the labour 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 hath] much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

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    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 labour; 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.

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    16When 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 2:23-25
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    23For 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.

    25For who can eat, or who else can hasten [hereunto], 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] an handful [with] quietness, than both the hands full [with] travail and vexation of spirit.

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  • 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.

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  • Prov 4:16
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  • Eccl 6:5
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    4Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.

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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.

  • Eccl 2:21
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    21For 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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