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
Look, you have made my days [mere] handbreadths, and my lifespan as nothing next to you. Surely every person standing firm [is] complete vanity. Selah
Ecclesiastes 1:14
I saw all the works that are done under the sun. Look! Everything [is] vanity and chasing wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:1
I said {to myself}, "Come! I will test pleasure {to see whether it is worthwhile}." But look, "This also [is] vanity!"
Ecclesiastes 4:8
Sometimes a man is all alone with no companion; he also has neither son nor brother. Yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eye is not satisfied with wealth. [He laments,] "For whom am I toiling and depriving {myself} of pleasure?" This also [is] vanity--it is an unhappy business!
Rise up
Proverbs 31:15
And she arises while [it is] still night, and gives food to her household, and tasks to her servant girls.
For so he
Psalm 3:5
I lay down and slept; I woke up because Yahweh sustains me.
Psalm 4:8
In peace I will lie down and sleep {at once}, for you alone, O Yahweh, make me dwell safely.
Ecclesiastes 5:12
The sleep of the laborer [is] pleasant, whether he eats little or much, but the wealth of the rich man does not allow him to rest.
Jeremiah 31:26
At this I awoke and looked, and my sleep was pleasant to me.
Ezekiel 34:25
And I will make them a covenant of peace, and I will put an end to wild animals from the land, and they will dwell in the desert {safely}, and they will sleep in the forest.
Acts 12:5
Thus Peter was kept in the prison, but prayer was fervently being made to God by the church for him.
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 rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of heaven, and over every animal that moves upon the earth."
Ecclesiastes 5:12
The sleep of the laborer [is] pleasant, whether he eats little or much, but the wealth of the rich man does not allow him to rest.
Jeremiah 31:26
At this I awoke and looked, and my sleep was pleasant to me.