In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat—for He gives sleep to His beloved.
The sleep of the worker is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich man permits him no sleep
I will lie down and sleep in peace, for You alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.
You will be secure, because there is hope, and you will look around and lie down in safety.
I lie down and sleep; I wake again, for the LORD sustains me.
So my heart began to despair over all the labor that I had done under the sun.
At this I awoke and looked around. My sleep had been most pleasant to me.
I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.
I will make with them a covenant of peace and rid the land of wild animals, so that they may dwell securely in the wilde
She rises while it is still night to provide food for her household and portions for her maidservants.
There is a man all alone, without even a son or brother. And though there is no end to his labor, his eyes are still not
You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists
All a man’s labor is for his mouth, yet his appetite is never satisfied.
I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy what is good!” But it proved to be futile.
Respond and save us with Your right hand, that Your beloved may be delivered.
So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was fervently praying to God for him.
And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I comman