Psalms 127:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

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.

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  • Ps 4:8 : 8 I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for you, LORD, only make me dwell in safety.
  • Eccl 5:12 : 12 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.
  • Ps 39:5-6 : 5 Behold, you have made my days as a handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: truly every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. 6 Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are troubled in vain: he heaps up riches, and does not know who shall gather them.
  • Ps 60:5 : 5 That Your beloved may be delivered, save with Your right hand, and hear me.
  • Prov 31:15-18 : 15 She rises also while it is yet night, and provides food for her household and portions for her maidens. 16 She considers a field and buys it; with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard. 17 She girds herself with strength and strengthens her arms. 18 She perceives that her merchandise is good; her lamp does not go out by night.
  • Eccl 1:14 : 14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and indeed, all is vanity and a striving after wind.
  • Eccl 2:1-9 : 1 I said in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure." And behold, this also is vanity. 2 I said of laughter, "It is madness," and of mirth, "What does it accomplish?" 3 I searched in my heart to give myself to wine, while guiding my heart with wisdom, and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what is good for the sons of men to do under heaven all the days of their lives. 4 I made great works; I built houses for myself; I planted vineyards for myself. 5 I made gardens and orchards for myself, and I planted all kinds of fruit trees in them. 6 I made pools of water for myself, to water the forest that grows trees. 7 I acquired male and female servants, and had servants born in my house; also, I had great possessions of herds and flocks, more than all who were in Jerusalem before me. 8 I gathered for myself silver and gold and the special treasures of kings and of the provinces. I acquired male and female singers, the delights of the sons of men, and various kinds of musical instruments. 9 So I became great and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also, my wisdom remained with me. 10 And whatever my eyes desired, I did not keep from them. I did not withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced in all my labor; and this was my reward from all my labor. 11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done and on the labor I had toiled to do; and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
  • Eccl 2:20-23 : 20 Therefore I turned my heart to despair over all the labor which I had done under the sun. 21 For 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. 22 For what has man from all his labor, and of the striving of his heart with which he has labored under the sun? 23 For all his days are sorrowful, and his work is burdensome; even at night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.
  • Eccl 4:8 : 8 There is one alone, without a second; yes, he has neither child nor brother, yet there is no end to all his labor, nor is his eye satisfied with riches, nor does he ask, 'For whom do I labor and deprive my soul of good?' This is also vanity, yes, it is a grievous toil.
  • Eccl 6:7 : 7 All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet his appetite is not satisfied.
  • Jer 31:26 : 26 Upon this I awoke, and looked around; and my sleep was sweet to me.
  • Ezek 34:25 : 25 And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
  • Gen 3:17-19 : 17 Then to Adam He said, Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it: cursed is the ground for your sake; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life; 18 Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the herb of the field; 19 In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.
  • Job 11:18 : 18 And you shall be secure, because there is hope; yes, you shall dig around you, and you shall take your rest in safety.
  • Ps 3:5 : 5 I lay down and slept; I awoke, for the LORD sustained me.
  • Acts 12:5-6 : 5 So Peter was kept in prison, but constant prayer was made to God for him by the church. 6 And when Herod was about to bring him out, that night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and the guards before the door were keeping the prison.

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    1Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain; unless the LORD keeps the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.

  • Eccl 5:12
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    12The 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.

  • Prov 20:13
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    13Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

  • Prov 6:9-10
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    9How long will you sleep, O sluggard? when will you arise out of your sleep?

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  • Prov 24:33
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    33A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.

  • Eccl 2:21-26
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    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.

    22For what has man from all his labor, and of the striving of his heart with which he has labored under the sun?

    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?

    26For God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy to the man who is good in His sight; but to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and collecting, only to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Prov 19:15
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    15Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

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  • Ps 132:3-4
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    72%

    3Surely I will not come into the tent of my house, nor go up to my bed;

    4I will not give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids,

  • Jer 31:26
    72%

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

  • Ps 127:3
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    3Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.

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

  • Prov 4:16
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    16For they do not sleep unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

  • Job 14:12
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  • Ps 128:2
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  • Prov 3:24
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  • Eccl 8:16
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  • Isa 28:20
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    20For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

  • Job 7:4
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    4When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise, and the night be gone?' And I am full of tossing to and fro until the dawning of the day.

  • Job 4:13
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  • Eccl 4:6
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  • Eccl 3:9
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  • Isa 5:11
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  • Ps 3:5
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  • Eccl 10:18
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    18By much slothfulness the building decays; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

  • Eccl 6:7
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  • Ps 37:7
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  • Ps 121:3-4
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  • 1 Thess 5:7
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    7For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

  • Ps 116:7
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  • Heb 4:10
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  • Eccl 1:3
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    3What profit does a man have from all his labor which he does under the sun?

  • Prov 31:27
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    27She watches over the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.

  • Hab 2:13
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  • Ps 6:6
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    6I am weary with my groaning; all the night I make my bed swim; I drench my couch with my tears.

  • Prov 28:19
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  • Prov 22:27
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