Proverbs 20:13
Do not be a lover of sleep, or you will become poor: keep your eyes open, and you will have bread enough.
Bible in Basic English
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 are equally the Lord's work.
Cross References
Proverbs 6:11Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man
Proverbs 12:11He who does work on his land will not be short of bread; but he who goes after foolish men is without sense.
Proverbs 19:15Hate of work sends deep sleep on a man: and he who has no industry will go without food.
Jonah 1:6And the ship's captain came to him and said to him, What are you doing sleeping? Up! say a prayer to your God, if by chance God will give a thought to us, so that we may not come to destruction.
Romans 13:11See then that the time has come for you to be awake from sleep: for now is your salvation nearer than when you first had faith.
Ephesians 5:14For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.
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 →