Proverbs 24:33
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
Proverbs 24:33 in other translations
| BSB | A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, |
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| WEB | a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep, |
| ASV | Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep; |
| YLT | A little sleep--a little slumber--A little folding of the hands to lie down. |
| DARBY | — A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest! |
| BBE | A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep: |
| Webster | Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: |
What does Proverbs 24:33 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 24:32-34
32-34. From the folly of the sluggard learn wisdom (Pr 6:10, 11).
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 24:30-34
See what a blessing the husbandman's calling is, and what a wilderness this earth would be without it. See what great difference there is in the management even of worldly affairs. Sloth and self-indulgence are the bane of all good. When we see fields overgrown with thorns and thistles, and the fences broken down, we see an emblem of the far more deplorable state of many souls. Every vile affection grows in men's…
Proverbs 24:33 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 24:33
- Proverbs 6:4-11
Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids. Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler. Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, …
- 1 Thessalonians 5:6-8
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
- Romans 13:11
And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
- Ephesians 5:14
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
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Context
- Proverbs 24:32
Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction.
- Proverbs 24:33
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
- Proverbs 24:34
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
Proverbs 24:33 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Un poco de sueño, cabeceando otro poco, poniendo mano sobre mano otro poco para dormir; |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Un peu de sommeil, un peu d’assoupissement, un peu croiser les mains pour dormir…, |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Ein wenig Schlaf, ein wenig Schlummer, ein wenig Händefalten, um auszuruhen- |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Parum, inquam, dormies, modicum dormitabis; pauxillum manus conseres ut quiescas: |