Proverbs 20:13 “Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor; open your eyes, and you will…”

Proverbs 20:13

Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of food.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt 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.

American Standard Version

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; Open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

Geneva Bible 1599

Loue not sleepe least thou come vnto pouertie: open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

Darby Translation

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, [and] thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

Young's Literal Translation

Love not sleep, lest thou become poor, Open thine eyes — 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.

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Cross references

“Love”

Proverbs 19:15 Romans 12:11 Proverbs 10:4 Proverbs 12:11 Proverbs 6:9–11 Proverbs 13:4

Proverbs 19:15 · BSB

Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger.

Romans 12:11 · BSB

Do not let your zeal subside; keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.

Proverbs 10:4 · BSB

Idle hands make one poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.

Proverbs 12:11 · BSB

The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies lacks judgment.

Proverbs 6:9–11 · BSB

How long will you lie there, O slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?

Proverbs 13:4 · BSB

The slacker craves yet has nothing, but the soul of the diligent is fully satisfied.

“open”

Romans 13:11 Jonah 1:6 Ephesians 5:14 1 Corinthians 15:34

Romans 13:11 · BSB

And do this, understanding the occasion. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.

Jonah 1:6 · BSB

The captain approached him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call upon your God. Perhaps this God will consider us, so that we may not perish.”

Ephesians 5:14 · BSB

So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

1 Corinthians 15:34 · BSB

Sober up as you ought, and stop sinning; for some of you are ignorant of God. I say this to your shame.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

12Ears that hear and eyes that see— the LORD has made them both.

14“Worthless, worthless!” says the buyer, but on the way out, he gloats.

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