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2It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.
And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.
I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.
Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)We are here taught to have a continual regard to the divine Providence in all the concerns of this life. Solomon was cried up for a wise man, and would be apt to lean to his own understanding and forecast, and therefore his father teaches him to look higher, and to take God along with him in his undertakings. He was to be a man of business, and therefore David instructed him how to manage his busi…
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