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, thou hast made my days a span long, and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee; and verily every man living is altogether vanity. Selah
Ecclesiastes 1:14
Thus I have considered all the things that come to pass under the Sun, and lo, they are all but vanity and vexation of mind.
Ecclesiastes 2:1
Then said I thus in my heart, "Now go to, I will take mine ease and have good days." But lo, that was vanity also:
Ecclesiastes 4:8
There is one man, no more but himself alone, having neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of his careful travail, his eyes cannot be satisfied with riches. Yet, doth he not remember himself, and say, "For whom do I take such travail? For whose pleasure do I thus consume away my life?" This is also a vain and miserable thing.
Rise up
Proverbs 31:15
She riseth ere day and giveth meat to her household, and food to her maidens.
For so he
Psalm 3:5
I laid me down and slept, and rose up again; for the LORD sustained me.
Psalm 4:8
I will lay me down in peace, and take my rest; for it is thou, LORD, only that makest me dwell in safety.
Ecclesiastes 5:12
A labouring man sleepeth sweetly, whether it be little or much that he eateth; but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
Jeremiah 31:26
When I heard this, I came again to myself, and mused, like as I had been waked out of a sweet sleep.
Ezekiel 34:25
Moreover, I will make a covenant of peace with them, and drive all evil beasts out of the land: so that they may dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
Acts 12:5
Then was Peter kept in prison. But prayer was made without ceasing of the congregation unto God for him.
General references
Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, "Grow and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and over the fowls of the air, and over all the beasts that move on the earth.
Ecclesiastes 5:12
A labouring man sleepeth sweetly, whether it be little or much that he eateth; but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
Jeremiah 31:26
When I heard this, I came again to myself, and mused, like as I had been waked out of a sweet sleep.