a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep,
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a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep,
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Cross-references (4)
Passages linked to Proverbs 24:33 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Proverbs 6:4-11 Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids. Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler. Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise; which having no chief, overseer, or ruler, provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest. How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:6-8 so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober. For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night. But since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
- Romans 13:11 Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.
- Ephesians 5:14 Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Read Prov. 6:10.
Read Prov. 6:10.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Pro 24:33 [Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber,…
Pro 24:33 [Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
Ver. 33. Yet a little sleep.] Mercer makes this to be the lesson that the wise man both learnt himself and also lays before others - viz., to be content with a little sleep - to be up and at it early, &c., that the beggar catch us not. But I rather incline to those that think that he here brings in the sluggard pleading for his sloth, and by an elegant mimesis imitates and personifies him, saying, as he used to do, "yet a little more sleep, a little more slumber," &c. "A little," and yet "sleeps," in the plural. A little he would have, but a little will not serve his turn. {See Trapp on "Pro 6:9"} &c.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain See this and the following verse in Pro 6:10,11.
See this and the following verse in Pro 6:10,11.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain See the Pro 6:11 note.
See the Pro 6:11 note.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Said I, is not in Hebrew, chap. vi. 10.…
Said I, is not in Hebrew, chap. vi. 10. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "I will slumber a while," to rest. Septuagint, "I will enfold my breast in my hands a little." (Haydock)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 33, 34. These verses are a repetition, with…
Vers. 33, 34. These verses are a repetition, with very slight variations, Pro_6:10:11 (where see notes), and possibly have been introduced here by a later editor. Ver. 33 seems to be the sluggard"s own words; Ver. 34 shows the result of his sloth. There are numberless proverbs dedicated to this subject in all languages; e.g. "No sweat, no sweet;" "No pains, no gains; .... He that wad eat the kernel maun crack the nut;" "A punadas entran las buenas hadas," "Good luck enters by dint of cuffs" (Spanish); "Nihil agendo male agere discimus; .... The dog in the kennel," say the Chinese. "barks at his fleas; the dog that hunts does not feel them" (Kelly). "Sloth and much sleep," say the Arabs, "remove from God and bring on poverty." The LXX is somewhat dramatic in its rendering: "Afterwards I repented (metenohsa ), I looked that I might receive instruction. "I slumber a little, I sleep a little, for a little I clasp (enagkalizomai ) my hands across my breast." But if thou do this, thy poverty will come advancing, and thy want like a good runner (agayov )" The word enagkalizomai occurs in Pro_6:10, but nowhere else in the Septuagint. It is used by St. Mark. (Mar_9:36 10:16) It has been thought that the original mashal ended with Ver. 32, the following passage being added by a scribe as illustrative in a marginal note, which afterwards crept into the text.
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Paul E. Kretzmann 1924 · Public Domain v. 33. Yet a little sleep, a little slumber,…
v. 33. Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep, that being the thought governing the actions of the slothful;
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 24:33-34 This proverb repeats 6:10-11.
24:33-34 This proverb repeats 6:10-11.
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