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
General references
Bible References
Vain
Psalm 39:5
Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah
Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:1
I said in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy yourself." But behold, this also was vanity.
Ecclesiastes 4:8
one person who has no other, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, "For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?" This also is vanity and an unhappy business.
Rise up
Proverbs 31:15
She rises while it is yet night and provides food for her household and portions for her maidens.
For so he
Psalm 3:5
I lay down and slept; I woke again, for the LORD sustained me.
Psalm 4:8
In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for you alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.
Ecclesiastes 5:12
Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much, but the full stomach of the rich will not let him sleep.
Jeremiah 31:26
At this I awoke and looked, and my sleep was pleasant to me.
Ezekiel 34:25
"I will make with them a covenant of peace and banish wild beasts from the land, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.
Acts 12:5
So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church.
General references
Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
Ecclesiastes 5:12
Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much, but the full stomach of the rich will not let him sleep.
Jeremiah 31:26
At this I awoke and looked, and my sleep was pleasant to me.