Catholic Public Domain Version
"You will sleep a little,” I said. “You will slumber briefly. You will fold your hands a little, so as to rest. "
— Proverbs 24:33, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:”
“Yeta little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep; ”
“a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep;”
““A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to relax,”
“Thou wilt sleep a little, said I, thou wilt slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little to rest.”
“A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:”
“Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:”
I passed by the field of a lazy man, and by the vineyard of a foolish man,
and behold, it was entirely filled with nettles, and thorns had covered its surface, and the stonewall was destroyed.
When I had seen this, I laid it up in my heart, and by this example, I received discipline.
You will sleep a little,” I said. “You will slumber briefly. You will fold your hands a little, so as to rest.
And destitution will overtake you like a runner, and begging will overtake you like an armed man.”