Is “God helps those who help themselves” in the Bible?

Is “God helps those who help themselves” in the Bible?

Found word for word. The words exist, but not where people usually place them. The earliest match in our corpus comes from another source, listed below.

[206-6] God helps those who help themselves.--SIDNEY: _Discourses on Government, sect. xxiii._ FRANKLIN: _Poor Richard's Almanac._
Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature — John Bartlett, ¶5628 · Public domain (US), Project Gutenberg #27889 · source

God helps those who help themselves.[265-1]
Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature — John Bartlett, ¶6984 · Public domain (US), Project Gutenberg #27889 · source

This situation has occurred so often before, always with the same result of a collapse of civilization (Professor Flinders Petrie has let out the secret of previous collapses), that the rich are instinctively crying 'Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die,' and the poor, 'How long, O Lord, how long?' But the pitiless reply still is that God helps those who help themselves. This does not mean th
Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch — George Bernard Shaw, ¶33 · Public domain (US), Project Gutenberg #13084 · source

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