For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

Better one handful with rest
than two handfuls with effort and a pursuit of the wind.

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.

If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many they may be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he is not respected and is not given a proper burial [he is not laid to rest in the sepulcher of his fathers], then I say, “Better the miscarriage than he,

Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.

Thou shalt not be hastened in thy spirit to be angry, for anger shall rest in the bosom of fools.

And then I saw evil men put to rest, taken even from the holy place; and they went about and were praised in the town because of what they had done. This again is to no purpose.

If the ruler’s anger rises against you, don’t leave your place,
for calmness puts great offenses to rest.

Sow your seed in the morning, and do not let your hands rest in the evening, for you do not know what will prosper-- whether this or that, or whether both of them alike will succeed.

In the day when the keepers of the house are shaking for fear, and the strong men are bent down, and the women who were crushing the grain are at rest because their number is small, and those looking out of the windows are unable to see;