Thou wilt sleep a little, said I, thou wilt slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little to rest:

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest!

A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to lie down.

'Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep'-

You will sleep a little," I said. "You will slumber briefly. You will fold your hands a little, so as to rest.

See the Proverbs 6:11 note.

[Yet] a little sleep, (l) a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
(l) See Proverbs 6:10

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber,.... The sight of the field and vineyard of the slothful put Solomon in mind of an observation he had made before, which fitly describes the disposition and gesture of the sluggard, by which means his field and vineyard came to ruin; while he should be up and tilling his field and planting his vineyard, he is in his bed; and awaking, instead of rising, craves for and indulges himself in another little doze, and which he repeats again and again;
a little folding of the hands to sleep; which ought to have been employed another way; See Gill on Proverbs 6:10.