Ecclesiastes 5:12
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.
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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 On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.
- Ps 4:8 : 8 In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you, Yahweh alone, make me live in safety. For the Chief Musician, with the flutes. A Psalm by David.
- Ps 127:2 : 2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.
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14 Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.
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9 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.
10 He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.
11 When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?
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13 Don't love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
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2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.
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33 a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep;
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9 How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?
10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
11 so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.
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15 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.
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2 a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
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19 He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.
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7 All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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17 All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.
18 Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.
19 Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor--this is the gift of God.
20 For he shall not often reflect on the days of his life; because God occupies him with the joy of his heart.
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16 When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes),
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23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.
24 There 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.
25 For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?
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26 On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.
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6 Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.
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11 Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.
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4 He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.
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15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbering on the bed;
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26 The appetite of the laboring man labors for him; for his mouth urges him on.
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16 Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.
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24 When you lie down, you will not be afraid. Yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet.
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7 There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.
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16 For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
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5 Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it. This has rest rather than the other.
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18 That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.
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4 Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.
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4 Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
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23 An abundance of food is in poor people's fields, but injustice sweeps it away.
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19 One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.
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21 For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.
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4 The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.
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12 If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;
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13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
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22 A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn't know that poverty waits for him.
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16 Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance 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.