Psalm 127:2
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2 It is in vain that you rise up early
and go late to rest,
eating the bread of anxious toil,
for he gives sleep to his beloved.[a](A)
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- 127.2 Or for he provides for his beloved during sleep
Ecclesiastes 5:12
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12 Sweet is the sleep of laborers, whether they eat little or much, but the abundance of the rich will not let them sleep.(A)
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Psalm 4:8
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8 I will both lie down and sleep in peace,
for you alone, O Lord, make me lie down in safety.(A)
Psalm 3:5
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5 I lie down and sleep;
I wake again, for the Lord sustains me.(A)
Job 11:18
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18 And you will have confidence because there is hope;
you will be protected[a] and take your rest in safety.(A)
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- 11.18 Or you will look around
Jeremiah 31:26
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26 Thereupon I awoke and looked, and my sleep was pleasant to me.
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Ezekiel 34:25
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25 I will make with them a covenant of peace and banish wild animals from the land, so that they may live in the wild and sleep in the woods securely.(A)
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Ecclesiastes 2:20-23
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20 So I turned and gave my heart up to despair concerning all the toil of my labors under the sun,(A) 21 because sometimes one who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave all to be enjoyed by another who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.(B) 22 What do mortals get from all the toil and strain with which they toil under the sun?(C) 23 For all their days are full of pain, and their work is a vexation; even at night their minds do not rest. This also is vanity.(D)
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Ecclesiastes 1:14
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14 I saw all the deeds that are done under the sun, and see, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.(A)
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Proverbs 31:15-18
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15 She rises while it is still night
and provides food for her household
and tasks for her female servants.(A)
16 She considers a field and buys it;
with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard.
17 She girds herself with strength
and makes her arms strong.
18 She perceives that her merchandise is profitable.
Her lamp does not go out at night.
Ecclesiastes 6:7
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7 All human toil is for the mouth, yet the appetite is not satisfied.(A)
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Ecclesiastes 4:8
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8 the case of solitary individuals, without sons or brothers; yet there is no end to all their toil, and their eyes are never satisfied with riches. “For whom am I toiling,” they ask, “and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy business.(A)
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Ecclesiastes 2:1-11
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The Futility of Self-Indulgence
2 I said to myself, “Come now, I will make a test of pleasure; enjoy yourself.” But again, this also was vanity.(A) 2 I said of laughter, “It is mad,” and of pleasure, “What use is it?”(B) 3 I searched with my mind how to cheer my body with wine—my mind still guiding me with wisdom—and how to lay hold on folly, until I might see what was good for mortals to do under heaven during the few days of their life. 4 I made great works; I built houses and planted vineyards for myself;(C) 5 I made myself gardens and parks and planted in them all kinds of fruit trees.(D) 6 I made myself pools from which to water the forest of growing trees. 7 I bought male and female slaves and had slaves who were born in my house; I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, more than any who had been before me in Jerusalem. 8 I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and of the provinces; I got singers, both men and women, and delights of the flesh, many concubines.[a](E)
9 So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem; also my wisdom remained with me.(F) 10 Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them; I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure from all my toil, and this was my reward from all my toil.(G) 11 Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had spent in doing it, and again, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.(H)
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- 2.8 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Psalm 60:5
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5 Give victory with your right hand and answer us,[a]
so that those whom you love may be rescued.(A)
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- 60.5 Or me
Psalm 39:5-6
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5 You have made my days a few handbreadths,
and my lifetime is as nothing in your sight.
Surely everyone stands as a mere breath. Selah(A)
6 Surely everyone goes about like a shadow.
Surely for nothing they are in turmoil;
they heap up and do not know who will gather.(B)
Acts 12:5-6
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5 While Peter was kept in prison, the church prayed fervently to God for him.(A)
Peter Delivered from Prison
6 The very night before Herod was going to bring him out, Peter, bound with two chains, was sleeping between two soldiers, while guards in front of the door were keeping watch over the prison.(B)
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Genesis 3:17-19
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17 And to the man[a] he said,
“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife
and have eaten of the tree
about which I commanded you,
‘You shall not eat of it,’
cursed is the ground because of you;
in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life;(A)
18 thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you;
and you shall eat the plants of the field.(B)
19 By the sweat of your face
you shall eat bread
until you return to the ground,
for out of it you were taken;
you are dust,
and to dust you shall return.”(C)
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- 3.17 Or to Adam
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