“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.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Psalms 127 contains 5 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.