Pengkhotbah 5:12

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

(5-11) Enak tidurnya orang yang bekerja, baik ia makan sedikit maupun banyak; tetapi kekenyangan orang kaya sekali-kali tidak membiarkan dia tidur.

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
(5-11) Enak tidurnya orang yang bekerja, baik ia makan sedikit maupun banyak; tetapi kekenyangan orang kaya sekali-kali tidak membiarkan dia tidur.

Contextual Overview

⁹ The encrease of the earth vpholdeth all thyng: yea the kyng hym selfe is maynteyned by husbandry. ¹⁰ He that loueth money, wyll neuer be satisfied with money: and he that loueth riches, shalbe without the fruite therof: This is also a vayne thyng. ¹¹ Wheras much riches is, there are many also that spende them away: And what pleasure more hath he that possesseth them, sauyng that he may loke vpon them with his eyes? ¹² A labouryng man sleepeth swetely, whether it be litle or much that he eateth: but the aboundaunce of the riche wyll not suffer him to sleepe. ¹³ Yet is there a sore plague which I haue seene vnder the sunne [namely] riches kept to the hurt of him that hath them in possession: ¹⁴ For oft tymes they perishe with his great miserie and trouble: and yf he haue a chylde, it getteth nothyng. ¹⁵ Lyke as he came naked out of his mothers wombe, so goeth he thyther agayne, and caryeth nothyng away with him of all his labour. ¹⁶ This is a miserable plague, that he shall go euen as he came away: What helpeth it him then that he hath laboured in the wynde? ¹⁷ All the dayes of his lyfe also he dyd eate in the darke, with great carefulnesse, sicknesse, and sorowe.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 4:8, Psalms 127:2, Proverbs 3:24, Jeremiah 31:26

Reciprocal: Genesis 48:15 - fed me Judges 19:16 - his work Psalms 104:23 - General Ecclesiastes 2:23 - his heart Ecclesiastes 8:16 - there is that

Cross-References

Luke 3:37
Whiche was the sonne of Mathusala, whiche was the sonne of Enoch, which was the sonne of Iared, whiche was the sonne of Maleleel, whiche was the sonne of Cainan:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The sleep of a labouring man [is] sweet, whether he eat little or much,.... Or "of a servant" i, who enjoys sleep equally as a king; a tiller of the ground, as Jarchi; who also interprets it of one that serves the Lord, as likewise the Targum; a beloved one of his, to whom he gives sleep, Psalms 127:2. A refreshing sleep is always reckoned a great mercy and blessing, and which labouring men enjoy with sweetness k; for if they have but little to eat at supper, yet coming weary from their work, sleep is easily brought on when they lie down, and sound sleep they have, and rise in the morning lively and active, and fit for business; or, if they eat more plentifully, yet through their labour they have a good digestion, and their sleep is not hindered: so that should it be answered to the above question, what has the master more than the servant, though he eats and drinks more freely, and of the best, and lives voluptuously? yet it may be replied, that, in the business of sleep, the labouring man has the preference to him; which must be owned to be a great blessing of life, and is often interrupted by excessive eating and drinking;

but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep; either the abundance of food which he eats, which loads his stomach, and fills his head with vapours, and makes him restless, so that he can get no sleep, or what he does get is very uncomfortable: or the abundance of his riches fills him with cares, what he shall do with them, and how to keep and increase them; and with fears, lest thieves should break in and take them away from him, so that he cannot sleep quietly l. The Targum is,

"sweet is the sleep of a man that serves the Lord of the world with a perfect heart; and he shall have rest in the house of his grave, whether he lives a few years or more, c''

and much to the same purpose Jarchi; and who says, it is thus interpreted in an ancient book of theirs, called Tanchuma.

i העבד του δουλου, Sept. "servi", Arab. "i.e. agricolae", Drusius, Rambachius; "qui par regi famuloque venis", Senec. Hercul. Fur. v. 1073. k "Somnus agrestium lenis", &c. Horat. Carmin. l. 3. Ode 1. v. 21, 22. l "Ne noctu, nec diu quietus unquam eam", Plauti Aulularia, Act. 1. Sc. 1. v. 23. "Aurea rumpunt tecta quietem", Senec. Hercul. Oet. v. 646.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Labouring man - Not a slave (Septuagint), but everyone who, according to the divine direction, earns his bread in the sweat of his brow.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ecclesiastes 5:12. The sleep of a labouring man is sweet — His labour is healthy exercise. He is without possessions, and without cares; his sleep, being undisturbed, is sound and refreshing.