Proverbs 20:13
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty. Open thine eyes, [and] thou shall be satisfied with bread.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
In Context
12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, LORD has made even both of them.
14It is bad, it is bad, says the buyer, but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
Cross References
Proverbs 6:11so thy poverty shall come as a robber, and thy want as an armed man.
Proverbs 12:11He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who pursues vanities is void of understanding.
Proverbs 19:15Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and the idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Jonah 1:6So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, What do thou mean, O sleeper? Arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we not perish.
Romans 13:11And this, knowing the time, that the hour is now for us to awake out of sleep. For our salvation is now nearer than when we believed.
Ephesians 5:14Therefore he says, Awake, thou who sleep. And arise from the dead, and the Christ will shine upon thee.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 20:13
12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them. Note, 1. God is the God of nature, and all the powers and faculties of nature are derived from him and depend upon him, and therefore are to be employed for him. It was he that formed the eye and planted the ear ( Ps. xciv. 9 ), and the structure of both is admirable; and it is he that preserves to us the use of both; to his providence we owe it that our eyes are seeing eyes and our ears hearing ears. Hearing and seeing are the learning… Read the whole commentary →