Proverbs 6:10 [Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
Ver. 10. Yet a little sleep.] Heb., Sleeps; so, slumbers. Though he speaks in the plural, and would have much, yet all is but a little in his pretence and conceit. He asks "a little," but he will not be denied: sed finite paululum ibit tu longum. a First, he must have "sleep"; having slept, he must have "slumbers," - sleep will not quickly be rubbed out of his eyes; having slumbered, he must "fold his hands." Compressis sedere manibus b to sit with hands folded up, is used by the Latins in a like sense. He tumbles on his bed, "as a door on the hinges." Pro 16:14 A man must come with a lever to help him off his couch.
a Augustine.
b Liv., lib. vii.