 | Hervey Wilbur - 1814 - 184 pagina’s
...may walk honestly toward them that are without ; and that ye may have lack of nothing. The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much ; but the abyin. dance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1815 - 572 pagina’s
...chap. v. 10. that is, this had been an instance of his former vanity : and he adds, The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, -whether he eat little or much ; but the abundance of the rich-mill not suffer him to sleep, ver. 12. If by this we understand that the increase of riches sometimes... | |
 | Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (1802-1822) - 1827 - 522 pagina’s
...late, to eat the bread of sorrows ; for so he giveth hie beloved sleep. r Eccl. v. 12. The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much : but the abundance or the rich will not suffer him to sleep, a Thess. iii. 10, 12. For even \vhen we were with you, this... | |
 | 1845 - 702 pagina’s
...good is tiiere to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes? 12 The sleep of a one ; the king of Geder, one n buudance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. 13 There is a sore evil which I have seen under... | |
 | John Summerfield - 1845 - 460 pagina’s
...fair; he walks with uncovered head around his garden ; enters again and retires to rest ; and the rest of the labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much. Inhabitant of this lonely dwelling! who can be indifferent to thy comfort ! Peace be to this house... | |
 | Peter Perring Thoms, Solomon (King of Israel.) - 1848 - 192 pagina’s
...God are upheld. The vanity of riches without the ability to use them, is beautifully contrasted — the sleep of the labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much : while the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. The twelfth, or last chapter, of this... | |
 | Ann Jane - 1855 - 1198 pagina’s
...Activity and happiness are twin sisters, generally found walking hand in hand. Solomon says, " the rest of the labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much ;" and this not °nly applies to the rest of sleep, but is equally applicable to a temporary rest from... | |
 | 1850 - 790 pagina’s
...walke, with uncovered head, around his garden ; enters agairr, and retires to rest ; and " the rest of the labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much." Inhabitant of this lonely dwelling, who can be indifferent to thy comfort ? Peace be to this house... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1852 - 428 pagina’s
...burden." Galatians vL 5. ' BEETHEEN, every man has his burden. on this throne, envied the milk-maid singing ; and a profane poet, whose wisdom was only...of the inspired writers, represents the man who by foree and wit had risen to he a If ! king, sighing for the slcep voucbsafed to the God designed our... | |
 | 1856 - 902 pagina’s
...subject. He «ays cheerfully with the wise man, as he retires to rest after his frugal repast — " The sleep of the labouring man is sweet, whether he...eat little or much ; but the abundance of the rich man will not suffer him to sleep." This is the man whom God delightcth to honour, and to whom, as to... | |
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The sleep of the laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much ; but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. 
