Proverbs 24:33 Cross References - NSB

³³ »Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.«

⁴ Do this before you fall asleep. Do not allow your eyes to close. ⁵ Deliver your self like a deer from the hand of the hunter, and like a bird from the hand of the fowler (bird catcher). ⁶ Go to the ant, you lazy person. Consider her ways and be wise! ⁷ The lowly ant has no guide or overseer. ⁸ It prepares its food in the summer and gathers food at the harvest. ⁹ How long will you sleep, O lazy person? When will you arise from your sleep? ¹⁰ »A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest. ¹¹ Your poverty comes like a traveler. Your need comes like an armed man.

¹¹ You know the time. It is the hour for you to awake from sleep. Now our salvation is nearer than when we became believers.

¹⁴ For this reason it says: »Awake, sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.«

⁶ Therefore, let us not sleep like others do. But let us watch and be sober. ⁷ They that sleep do so in the night. They that get drunk are drunk in the night. ⁸ Let us be sober and put on the breastplate of faith and love; and the hope of salvation as a helmet.