Proverbs 24:33 Cross References - CAB

³³ The sluggard says, I slumber a little, and I sleep a little, and for a little while I fold my arms across my breast.

⁴ Give not sleep to your eyes, nor slumber with your eyelids; ⁵ that you may deliver yourself as a doe out of the toils, and as a bird out of a snare. ⁶ Go to the ant, O sluggard; and see, and emulate his ways, and become wiser than he. ⁷ For whereas he has no leader, nor anyone to compel him, and is under no master, ⁸ he prepares food for himself in the summer, and lays up abundant supplies in harvest. ^(6:8A) Or go to the bee, and learn how diligent she is, and how earnestly she is engaged in her work; ^(6:8B) whose labors kings and private men use for health, and she is desired and respected by all: ^(6:8C) though weak in body, she is advanced by honoring wisdom. ⁹ How long will you lie, O sluggard? And when will you awake out of sleep? ¹⁰ You sleep a little, and you rest a little, and you slumber a short time, and you fold your arms over your breast a little. ¹¹ Then poverty comes upon you as an evil traveler, and your need as a swift courier. ^(6:11A) But if you be diligent, your harvest shall arrive as a fountain, and poverty shall flee away as a bad courier.

¹¹ And do this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour for us to be roused out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.

¹⁴ Therefore He says: "Awake, you who are sleeping, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

⁶ Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober. ⁷ For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those getting drunk, are drunk at night. ⁸ But we, since we are of the day, let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation.