4Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
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I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: …
Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: …
Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: …
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)It is the excellency of the word of God that it teaches us not only divine wisdom for another world, but human prudence for this world, that we may order our affairs with discretion; and this is one good rule, To avoid suretiship, because by it poverty and ruin are often brought into families, which take away that comfort in relations which he had recommended in the foregoing chapter. 1. We must l…
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