It would have been better if the new chapter had been made to begin here. The sentiment is that already expressed in Ecclesiastes 3:11.
Seeth sleep with his eyes. — Psalms 132:4; Proverbs 6:4; Genesis 31:40. The identical expression occurs in Terence, Heaut III. 1:82, “Somnum hercle ego hae nocte oculis non vidi meis.”