The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.


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Proverbs 20 13 Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Job 4 13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
Job 27 19 The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not.
Job 33 15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;
Proverbs 23 4 Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
Proverbs 6 4 Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
Psalms 127 2 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.
Haggai 1 6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
Psalms 76 5 The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.
Matthew 11 28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Ecclesiastes 1 8 All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
1 Thessalonians 5 7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
John 11 12 Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.
Matthew 10 10 Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.
Proverbs 13 8 The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.
Ecclesiastes 2 23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
Proverbs 4 16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
Proverbs 23 21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Proverbs 10 4 He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
Ecclesiastes 6 7 All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
Proverbs 19 15 Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Psalms 121 4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
Psalms 62 10 Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
Micah 2 1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Ecclesiastes 2 24 There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
Ecclesiastes 1 3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
Isaiah 29 10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.
Ecclesiastes 2 21 For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
Job 14 12 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
Psalms 104 23 Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.
Proverbs 18 11 The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.
Luke 10 7 And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.
Proverbs 16 26 He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
Proverbs 22 16 He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.
Exodus 5 9 Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.
Proverbs 28 11 The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.
Ecclesiastes 2 22 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
Proverbs 13 11 Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
Proverbs 24 33 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
1 Thessalonians 4 13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
1 Corinthians 11 30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
Isaiah 17 14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
Proverbs 27 24 For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?
Job 7 2 As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
Jeremiah 49 31 Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth without care, saith the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars, which dwell alone.
Proverbs 13 7 There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.
Joshua 9 4 They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;
Jeremiah 5 27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
Proverbs 12 25 Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.