THEOSISProverbs 24:33Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Thou wilt sleep a little, said I, thou wilt slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little to rest.
מְעַ֣ט שֵׁ֭נוֹת מְעַ֣ט תְּנוּמ֑וֹת מְעַ֓ט ׀ חִבֻּ֖ק יָדַ֣יִם לִשְׁכָּֽב׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- 1 Thess 5:6Therefore, let us not sleep, as others do: but let us watch, and be sober.
- 1 Thess 5:8But let us, who are of the day, be sober, having on the breast plate of faith and charity and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
- Prov 6:4Give not sleep to thy eyes, neither let thy eyelids slumber.
- Prov 6:11And want shall come upon thee, as a traveller, and poverty as a man armed. But if thou be diligent, thy harvest shall come as a fountain, and want shall flee far from thee.
- Rom 13:11And that, knowing the season, that it is now the hour for us to rise from sleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.
- Eph 5:14Wherefore he saith: Rise, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead: and Christ shall enlighten thee.