Psalm 127:2

It is useless to get up early and to stay up late, eating the food of exhausting labor truly he gives sleep to those he loves.

Ecclesiastes 5:12

Sweet is the sleep of a working man, whether he eats a little or a lot, but the excess wealth of the rich will not allow him to rest.

Genesis 3:17-19

He told the man, "Because you have listened to what your wife said, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, "You must not eat from it,' cursed is the ground because of you. You'll eat from it through pain-filled labor for the rest of your life.

Job 11:18

You'll be secure, because there is hope; you'll see that you're at rest and safe.

Psalm 3:5

I lie down and sleep, I wake up, because the LORD sustains me.

Psalm 4:8

I will lie down and sleep in peace, for you alone, LORD, enable me to live securely. To the Director: For flutes. A Davidic Psalm

Psalm 39:5-6

Look, you have made my life span fit in your hand; It is nothing compared to yours. Surely every person at their best is a puff of wind. Interlude

Psalm 60:5

So your loved ones may be delivered, save us by your power and answer us quickly!

Proverbs 31:15-18

She rises while it is still night, preparing meals for her family and providing for her women servants.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I observed every activity done on earth. My conclusion: all of it is pointless like chasing after the wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:1-11

I told myself, "I will test you with pleasure, so enjoy yourself." But this was pointless.

Ecclesiastes 2:20-23

So I came to be in despair about everything I had accomplished on earth.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

Consider someone who is alone, having neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his work, and he is never satisfied with wealth. "So for whom do I work," he asks, "and deprive myself of pleasure?" This, too, is pointless and a terrible tragedy.

Ecclesiastes 6:7

Every person works for his own self-interests, but his desires remain unsatisfied.

Jeremiah 31:26

Then I awoke and looked around, and I had had a pleasant sleep.

Ezekiel 34:25

"I'm going to enter into a covenant with them, one of peace, and I'll eliminate wild beasts from the land so they can live securely in the wilderness and sleep in the forests.

Acts 12:5-6

So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer to God for him was being offered by the assembly.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Rise up

Bible References

Vain

Psalm 39:5
Look, you have made my life span fit in your hand; It is nothing compared to yours. Surely every person at their best is a puff of wind. Interlude
Ecclesiastes 1:14
I observed every activity done on earth. My conclusion: all of it is pointless like chasing after the wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:1
I told myself, "I will test you with pleasure, so enjoy yourself." But this was pointless.
Ecclesiastes 4:8
Consider someone who is alone, having neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his work, and he is never satisfied with wealth. "So for whom do I work," he asks, "and deprive myself of pleasure?" This, too, is pointless and a terrible tragedy.

Rise up

Proverbs 31:15
She rises while it is still night, preparing meals for her family and providing for her women servants.

For so he

Psalm 3:5
I lie down and sleep, I wake up, because the LORD sustains me.
Psalm 4:8
I will lie down and sleep in peace, for you alone, LORD, enable me to live securely. To the Director: For flutes. A Davidic Psalm
Ecclesiastes 5:12
Sweet is the sleep of a working man, whether he eats a little or a lot, but the excess wealth of the rich will not allow him to rest.
Jeremiah 31:26
Then I awoke and looked around, and I had had a pleasant sleep.
Ezekiel 34:25
"I'm going to enter into a covenant with them, one of peace, and I'll eliminate wild beasts from the land so they can live securely in the wilderness and sleep in the forests.
Acts 12:5
So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer to God for him was being offered by the assembly.

General references

Genesis 1:28
God blessed the humans by saying to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it! Be masters over the fish in the ocean, the birds that fly, and every living thing that crawls on the earth!"
Ecclesiastes 5:12
Sweet is the sleep of a working man, whether he eats a little or a lot, but the excess wealth of the rich will not allow him to rest.
Jeremiah 31:26
Then I awoke and looked around, and I had had a pleasant sleep.

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