Proverbs 24:33
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
Cross-references
Proverbs 6:4-11 contains the identical warning against laziness, using the same 'little sleep' phrase and sudden poverty.
In Proverbs 6:9, the same sluggard is directly rebuked for lying in bed — a parallel warning about laziness.
In Proverbs 6:10, this identical phrase appears verbatim — the same warning against excessive sleep.
In Proverbs 19:15, slothfulness leads to deep sleep and hunger — the same cause-and-effect as here.
In Proverbs 26:14, a sluggard is compared to a door on its hinges, always on his bed — reinforcing the theme of laziness.
In Ecclesiastes 4:5, the fool folds his hands (same phrase) and destroys himself — a parallel on idleness leading to ruin.
Romans 13:11 uses sleep as metaphor for spiritual lethargy, calling for wakefulness — contrast to literal sleep leading to poverty.