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Sunday, August 17th, 2025
the Week of Proper 15 / Ordinary 20
the Week of Proper 15 / Ordinary 20
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Proverbs 20:13
Nyle thou loue sleep, lest nedynesse oppresse thee; opene thin iyen, and be thou fillid with looues.
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Christian Standard Bible®
Don’t love sleep, or you will become poor;open your eyes, and you’ll have enough to eat.
Don’t love sleep, or you will become poor;open your eyes, and you’ll have enough to eat.
Hebrew Names Version
Don't love sleep, lest you come to poverty; Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
Don't love sleep, lest you come to poverty; Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
King James Version
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
English Standard Version
Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.
Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.
New American Standard Bible
Do not love sleep, or you will become poor; Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with food.
Do not love sleep, or you will become poor; Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with food.
New Century Version
If you love to sleep, you will be poor. If you stay awake, you will have plenty of food.
If you love to sleep, you will be poor. If you stay awake, you will have plenty of food.
Amplified Bible
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.
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.
World English Bible
Don't love sleep, lest you come to poverty; Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
Don't love sleep, lest you come to poverty; Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Loue not sleepe least thou come vnto pouertie: open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Loue not sleepe least thou come vnto pouertie: open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Legacy Standard Bible
Do not love sleep, lest you become poor;Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with food.
Do not love sleep, lest you become poor;Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with food.
Berean Standard Bible
Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of food.
Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of food.
Contemporary English Version
If you sleep all the time, you will starve; if you get up and work, you will have enough food.
If you sleep all the time, you will starve; if you get up and work, you will have enough food.
Complete Jewish Bible
If you love sleep, you will become poor; keep your eyes open, and you'll have plenty of food.
If you love sleep, you will become poor; keep your eyes open, and you'll have plenty of food.
Darby Translation
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, [and] thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, [and] thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Easy-to-Read Version
If you love to sleep, you will become poor. Use your time working and you will have plenty to eat.
If you love to sleep, you will become poor. Use your time working and you will have plenty to eat.
George Lamsa Translation
Love not sleep test you come to poverty; open your eyes and you shall be satisfied with bread.
Love not sleep test you come to poverty; open your eyes and you shall be satisfied with bread.
Good News Translation
If you spend your time sleeping, you will be poor. Keep busy and you will have plenty to eat.
If you spend your time sleeping, you will be poor. Keep busy and you will have plenty to eat.
Lexham English Bible
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 and have plenty bread.
Literal Translation
Do not love sleep, lest you become poor; open your eyes, be satisfied with bread.
Do not love sleep, lest you become poor; open your eyes, be satisfied with bread.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Delyte not thou in slepe, lest thou come vnto pouerte: but ope thine eyes, & thou shalt haue bred ynough.
Delyte not thou in slepe, lest thou come vnto pouerte: but ope thine eyes, & thou shalt haue bred ynough.
American Standard Version
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; Open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; Open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Bible in Basic English
Do not be a lover of sleep, or you will become poor: keep your eyes open, and you will have bread enough.
Do not be a lover of sleep, or you will become poor: keep your eyes open, and you will have bread enough.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt have bread in plenty.
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt have bread in plenty.
King James Version (1611)
Loue not sleepe, lest thou come to pouertie: open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Loue not sleepe, lest thou come to pouertie: open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Loue not sleepe, lest thou come vnto pouertie: but open thyne eyes, that thou mayest haue bread inough.
Loue not sleepe, lest thou come vnto pouertie: but open thyne eyes, that thou mayest haue bread inough.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Love not to speak ill, lest thou be cut off: open thine eyes, and be filled with bread.
Love not to speak ill, lest thou be cut off: open thine eyes, and be filled with bread.
English Revised Version
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Update Bible Version
Don't love sleep, or else you will come to poverty; Open your eyes, [and] you shall be satisfied with bread.
Don't love sleep, or else you will come to poverty; Open your eyes, [and] you shall be satisfied with bread.
Webster's Bible Translation
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thy eyes, [and] thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thy eyes, [and] thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
New English Translation
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 become impoverished; open your eyes so that you might be satisfied with food.
New King James Version
Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty; Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with bread.
Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty; Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with bread.
New Living Translation
If you love sleep, you will end in poverty. Keep your eyes open, and there will be plenty to eat!
If you love sleep, you will end in poverty. Keep your eyes open, and there will be plenty to eat!
New Life Bible
Do not love sleep, or you will become poor. Open your eyes, and you will be filled with food.
Do not love sleep, or you will become poor. Open your eyes, and you will be filled with food.
New Revised Standard
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, or else you will come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Do not love sleep, lest thou come to poverty, open thine eyes, be satisfied with bread.
Do not love sleep, lest thou come to poverty, open thine eyes, be satisfied with bread.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Love not sleep, lest poverty oppress thee: open thy eyes, and be filled with bread.
Love not sleep, lest poverty oppress thee: open thy eyes, and be filled with bread.
Revised Standard Version
Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.
Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.
Young's Literal Translation
Love not sleep, lest thou become poor, Open thine eyes -- be satisfied [with] bread.
Love not sleep, lest thou become poor, Open thine eyes -- be satisfied [with] bread.
THE MESSAGE
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.
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.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Do not love sleep, or you will become poor; Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with food.
Do not love sleep, or you will become poor; Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with food.
Contextual Overview
13 Nyle thou loue sleep, lest nedynesse oppresse thee; opene thin iyen, and be thou fillid with looues.
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
Genesis 12:1
Forsothe the Lord seide to Abram, Go thou out of thi lond, and of thi kynrede, and of the hous of thi fadir, and come thou in to the lond which Y schal schewe to thee;
Forsothe the Lord seide to Abram, Go thou out of thi lond, and of thi kynrede, and of the hous of thi fadir, and come thou in to the lond which Y schal schewe to thee;
Genesis 12:9
And Abram yede goynge and goynge forth ouer to the south.
And Abram yede goynge and goynge forth ouer to the south.
Genesis 20:3
Sotheli God cam to Abymalec bi a sweuene in the nyyt, and seide to hym, Lo! thou schalt die, for the wooman which thou hast take, for sche hath an hosebond.
Sotheli God cam to Abymalec bi a sweuene in the nyyt, and seide to hym, Lo! thou schalt die, for the wooman which thou hast take, for sche hath an hosebond.
Genesis 20:5
Whether he seide not to me, Sche is my sistir, and sche seide, He is my brother? In the symplenesse of myn herte, and in the clennesse of myn hondis Y dide this.
Whether he seide not to me, Sche is my sistir, and sche seide, He is my brother? In the symplenesse of myn herte, and in the clennesse of myn hondis Y dide this.
Genesis 20:11
Abraham answerde, Y thouyte with me, and seide, in hap the drede of God is not in this place; and thei schulen sle me for my wijf;
Abraham answerde, Y thouyte with me, and seide, in hap the drede of God is not in this place; and thei schulen sle me for my wijf;
1 Samuel 23:21
And Saul seide, Blessid be ye of the Lord, for ye sorewiden `for my stide.
And Saul seide, Blessid be ye of the Lord, for ye sorewiden `for my stide.
Psalms 64:5
Sodeynli thei schulen schete hym, and thei schulen not drede; thei maden stidefast to hem silf a wickid word. Thei telden, that thei schulden hide snaris; thei seiden, Who schal se hem?
Sodeynli thei schulen schete hym, and thei schulen not drede; thei maden stidefast to hem silf a wickid word. Thei telden, that thei schulden hide snaris; thei seiden, Who schal se hem?
Acts 5:9
And Petre seide to hyr, What bifelde to you, to tempte the spirit of the Lord? Lo! the feet of hem that han birieden thin hosebonde ben at the dore, and thei schulen bere thee out.
And Petre seide to hyr, What bifelde to you, to tempte the spirit of the Lord? Lo! the feet of hem that han birieden thin hosebonde ben at the dore, and thei schulen bere thee out.
Hebrews 11:8
By feith he that is clepid Abraham, obeiede to go out in to a place, whiche he schulde take in to eritage; and he wente out, not witinge whidur he schulde go.
By feith he that is clepid Abraham, obeiede to go out in to a place, whiche he schulde take in to eritage; and he wente out, not witinge whidur he schulde go.
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.
