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Proverbs 20:13
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Don’t love sleep, or you will become poor;open your eyes, and you’ll have enough to eat.
Don't love sleep, lest you come to poverty; Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.
Do not love sleep, or you will become poor; Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with food.
If you love to sleep, you will be poor. If you stay awake, you will have plenty of food.
Do not love [excessive] sleep, or you will become poor; Open your eyes [so that you can do your work] and you will be satisfied with bread.
Don't love sleep, lest you come to poverty; Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
Loue not sleepe least thou come vnto pouertie: open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Do not love sleep, lest you become poor;Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with food.
Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of food.
If you sleep all the time, you will starve; if you get up and work, you will have enough food.
If you love sleep, you will become poor; keep your eyes open, and you'll have plenty of food.
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, [and] thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
If you love to sleep, you will become poor. Use your time working and you will have plenty to eat.
Love not sleep test you come to poverty; open your eyes and you shall be satisfied with bread.
If you spend your time sleeping, you will be poor. Keep busy and you will have plenty to eat.
Do not love sleep, lest you become poor; open your eyes and have plenty bread.
Do not love sleep, lest you become poor; open your eyes, be satisfied with bread.
Delyte not thou in slepe, lest thou come vnto pouerte: but ope thine eyes, & thou shalt haue bred ynough.
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; Open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Do not be a lover of sleep, or you will become poor: keep your eyes open, and you will have bread enough.
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt have bread in plenty.
Loue not sleepe, lest thou come to pouertie: open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Loue not sleepe, lest thou come vnto pouertie: but open thyne eyes, that thou mayest haue bread inough.
Love not to speak ill, lest thou be cut off: open thine eyes, and be filled with bread.
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Nyle thou loue sleep, lest nedynesse oppresse thee; opene thin iyen, and be thou fillid with looues.
Don't love sleep, or else you will come to poverty; Open your eyes, [and] you shall be satisfied with bread.
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thy eyes, [and] thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Do not love sleep, lest you become impoverished; open your eyes so that you might be satisfied with food.
Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty; Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with bread.
Do not love sleep, or you will become poor. Open your eyes, and you will be filled with food.
Do not love sleep, or else you will come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.
Do not love sleep, lest thou come to poverty, open thine eyes, be satisfied with bread.
Love not sleep, lest poverty oppress thee: open thy eyes, and be filled with bread.
Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.
Love not sleep, lest thou become poor, Open thine eyes -- be satisfied [with] bread.
Don't be too fond of sleep; you'll end up in the poorhouse. Wake up and get up; then there'll be food on the table.
Do not love sleep, or you will become poor; Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with food.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Love: Proverbs 6:9-11, Proverbs 10:4, Proverbs 12:11, Proverbs 13:4, Proverbs 19:15, Proverbs 24:30-34, Romans 12:11, 2 Thessalonians 3:10
open: Jonah 1:6, Romans 13:11, 1 Corinthians 15:34, Ephesians 5:14
Cross-References
The Lord had said to Abram, "Leave your native country, your relatives, and your father's family, and go to the land that I will show you.
Then Abram continued traveling south by stages toward the Negev.
But that night God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him, "You are a dead man, for that woman you have taken is already married!"
Didn't Abraham tell me, ‘She is my sister'? And she herself said, ‘Yes, he is my brother.' I acted in complete innocence! My hands are clean."
Abraham replied, "I thought, ‘This is a godless place. They will want my wife and will kill me to get her.'
"The Lord bless you," Saul said. "At last someone is concerned about me!
They encourage each other to do evil and plan how to set their traps in secret. "Who will ever notice?" they ask.
And Peter said, "How could the two of you even think of conspiring to test the Spirit of the Lord like this? The young men who buried your husband are just outside the door, and they will carry you out, too."
It was by faith that Abraham obeyed when God called him to leave home and go to another land that God would give him as his inheritance. He went without knowing where he was going.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty,.... Sleep is a very great natural blessing; it is a gift of God, what nature requires, and is desirable; it is to be loved, though not immoderately; it is sweet to a man, and what he should be thankful for; yet should not indulge himself in to the neglect of the proper business of life; nor to be used but at the proper time for it; for the eye is made for sight, and not for sleep only, as Aben Ezra observes, connecting the words with the preceding; and therefore should not be kept shut and inattentive to business, which must necessarily end in poverty and want; see Proverbs 6:9; and so spiritual sleep and slothfulness bring on a spiritual poverty in the souls of men, both as to the exercise of grace and the performance of duty;
open thine eyes, [and] thou shall be satisfied with bread; that is, open thine eyes from sleep, awake and keep so, and be sedulous and industrious in the business of thy calling; so shalt thou have a sufficiency of food for thyself and family; see Proverbs 12:11. It may be applied to awaking out of sleep in a spiritual sense, and to a diligent attendance to duty and the use of means, whereby the souls of men come to be satisfied with the goodness of the Lord, and the fatness of his house; see Ephesians 5:14.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Open thine eyes - Be vigilant and active. That is the secret of prosperity.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 20:13. Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty — Sleep, indescribable in its nature, is an indescribable blessing; but how often is it turned into a curse! It is like food; a certain measure of it restores and invigorates exhausted nature; more than that oppresses and destroys life. A lover of sleep is a paltry, insignificant character.
