Pensée juive sur Les Proverbes 6:10

Similarly, in regard to sleep, it is said, "Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep. [So shall your poverty come as a traveler, and your want as an armed man (who arrives suddenly)]" (Mishlei 6:10).

Among them what Shlomo said: "Be not among wine-bibbers; among gluttonous eaters of flesh" (Mishlei 23:20), and "A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie" (Mishlei 6:10), and what the mother of Lemuel said: "Do not give your strength to women, nor your ways to the pleasures of kings; It is not for kings, Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, neither is strong drink for rulers; Lest he drink and forget what was decreed" (Mishlei 31:3-5).