Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber;
I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids,
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.
Therefore stay awake—for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning— lest he come suddenly and find you asleep.
Let the one who is on the housetop not go down to take what is in his house, and let the one who is in the field not turn back to take his cloak.
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
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