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.
Rising before you are rested, eating the bread of sorrows, losing sleep through anxious care, this is the fool's way, and it dishonours God. Faith brings calm; it banishes the murderers of peace. The Lord would have His children, as princes of the blood, take their rest and their meals as princes do, for their health and their joy.
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Men ascribe their success entirely to themselves and rob God of His due honor. Solomon corrects this perverse error by declaring that nothing prospers except by God's blessing; our ingratitude is instant and shameless unless we acknowledge His hand in every prosperous event.
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Commenting on Psalm 127:1-5
Even a king's house stands only while God protects it. All our contrivance and ingenuity amount to nothing unless God blesses the work; the best-laid project fails without His crown of success, and we labor wholly in vain.
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Commenting on Psalm 127:1-5