31 Thorns had grown up everywhere, thistles had covered the ground, and the stone wall was broken down. 32 I observed and took it to heart; I looked and received instruction: 33 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
Proverbs 24:31–33
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Proverbs 6:9–11
9 How long will you lie there, O slacker? When will you get up from your sleep? 10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, 11 and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and need like a bandit.
Sirach 51:26–28
26 Put your neck under the yoke, and let your soul receive instruction. She is near to find. (WEB) 27 See with your eyes how I labored just a little and found for myself much rest. (WEB) 28 Get instruction with a great sum of silver, and gain much gold by her. (WEB)
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10 Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland. 11 They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to hea…
Isaiah 42:19–21
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Jeremiah 31:25–27
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Book of Enoch 90:38–40
38 And I saw till all their generations were transformed, and they all became white bulls; and the first among them became a lamb, and that lamb became a great animal and had great black horns on its head; and the Lord of the sheep rejoiced over it and over all… (ENO) 39 … (ENO)
Job 3:16–18
16 Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight? 17 There the wicked cease from raging, and there the weary find rest. 18 The captives enjoy their ease; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
Proverbs 19:14–16
14 Houses and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD. 15 Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger. 16 He who keeps a commandment preserves his soul, but he who is careless in his ways will die.
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