Ecclesiastes 5:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 3:24 : 24 When you lie down, you will not be afraid: yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet.
  • Jer 31:26 : 26 Upon this I awoke, and looked around; and my sleep was sweet to me.
  • Ps 4:8 : 8 I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for you, LORD, only make me dwell in safety.
  • Ps 127:2 : 2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, to eat the bread of sorrows; for He gives His beloved sleep.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 5:13-14
    2 verses
    80%

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

    14But those riches perish through misfortune, and he begets a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

  • Eccl 5:9-11
    3 verses
    79%

    9Moreover, the profit of the earth is for all; the king himself is served by the field.

    10He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance with increase; this also is vanity.

    11When goods increase, they who eat them increase, and what good is there to the owners, except the beholding of them with their eyes?

  • Prov 20:13
    78%

    13Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

  • Ps 127:2
    78%

    2It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, to eat the bread of sorrows; for He gives His beloved sleep.

  • Prov 24:33-34
    2 verses
    77%

    33A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.

    34So shall your poverty come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.

  • Prov 6:9-11
    3 verses
    76%

    9How long will you sleep, O sluggard? when will you arise out of your sleep?

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

    11So shall your poverty come upon you like a traveler, and your need like an armed man.

  • Prov 19:15
    75%

    15Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

  • Eccl 6:2
    74%

    2A man to whom God has given riches, wealth, and honor, so that he wants nothing for his soul of all he desires, yet God does not give him the power to eat of it, but a stranger eats it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

  • Job 27:19
    73%

    19The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered; he opens his eyes, and he is no more.

  • Eccl 6:7
    73%

    7All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet his appetite is not satisfied.

  • Eccl 5:17-20
    4 verses
    73%

    17All his days he also eats in darkness, and he has much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

    18Behold, what I have seen: it is good and fitting for one to eat and drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labor in which he toils under the sun all the days of his life, which God gives him; for it is his portion.

    19Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, to receive his portion, and to rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God.

    20For he will not much remember the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with the joy of his heart.

  • Eccl 8:16
    72%

    16When I applied my heart to know wisdom and to see the work that is done upon the earth (for there are those who neither day nor night see sleep with their eyes),

  • Eccl 2:23-25
    3 verses
    72%

    23For all his days are sorrowful, and his work is burdensome; even at night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

    24There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and enjoy the good of his labor. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God.

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

  • Jer 31:26
    72%

    26Upon this I awoke, and looked around; and my sleep was sweet to me.

  • Eccl 4:6
    72%

    6Better is a handful with quietness than both hands full, with toil and vexation of spirit.

  • Prov 13:11
    72%

    11Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished, but he who gathers by labor shall increase.

  • Prov 10:4
    72%

    4He becomes poor who deals with a slack hand, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

  • Job 33:15
    71%

    15In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

  • Prov 16:26
    71%

    26He who labors, labors for himself, for his mouth craves it of him.

  • Prov 22:16
    71%

    16He who oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he who gives to the rich, shall surely come to want.

  • Prov 3:24
    71%

    24When you lie down, you will not be afraid: yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet.

  • Prov 13:7
    71%

    7There is one who makes himself rich, yet has nothing; there is one who makes himself poor, yet has great riches.

  • Prov 4:16
    71%

    16For they do not sleep unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

  • Eccl 6:5
    71%

    5Moreover, it has not seen the sun nor known anything: this has more rest than the other.

  • Job 20:18
    71%

    18That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down; according to his wealth shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice in it.

  • Prov 6:4
    71%

    4Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.

  • Prov 23:4
    71%

    4Do not labor to be rich; cease from your own wisdom.

  • Prov 13:23
    71%

    23Much food is in the tillage of the poor, but there is that which is destroyed for lack of judgment.

  • Prov 28:19
    70%

    19He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who follows vain persons shall have poverty enough.

  • Eccl 2:21
    70%

    21For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, knowledge, and skill. Yet he must leave his inheritance to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.

  • Prov 13:4
    70%

    4The soul of the sluggard desires and has nothing, but the soul of the diligent shall be made rich.

  • Deut 24:12
    70%

    12And if the man is poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge:

  • Job 4:13
    70%

    13In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

  • Prov 28:22
    70%

    22He who hastens to be rich has an evil eye and does not consider that poverty shall come upon him.

  • Ps 37:16
    70%

    16A little that the righteous has is better than the riches of many wicked.

  • Prov 10:15
    70%

    15The rich man's wealth is his strong city, the destruction of the poor is their poverty.