Proverbs 24:33
[Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
In Context
32Then I beheld, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction:
34so thy poverty shall come as a robber, and thy want as an armed man.
Cross References
Proverbs 6:4Do not give sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
Proverbs 18:9He also that is slack in his work is brother to him that is a destroyer.
Romans 13:11And this, knowing the time, that the hour is now for us to awake out of sleep. For our salvation is now nearer than when we believed.
1 Thessalonians 5:6So then let us not sleep, as also the others, but let us watch and be sober.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 24:31-34
The Vineyard of the Slothful. 30 I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; 31 And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down. 32 Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction. 33 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: 34 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man. Here is, 1. The… Read the whole commentary →