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It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil, for he gives sleep to his loved ones.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 2. Hands. The idle are not entitled to blessings, which God will bestow on the industrious who fear him, preserving them from evils. Leviticus 26:16 and Deuteronomy 28:30. Calmet. 2 Corinthians 3:10.—Some have explained καρπων, “fruits:” though it here means hands. Bert.
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