Proverbs 20:13
Love not sleep, lest poverty oppress thee: open thy eyes, and be filled with bread.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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, the Lord hath made them both.
14It is nought, it is nought, saith every buyer: and when he is gone away, then he will boast.
Cross References
Proverbs 6:11And want shall come upon thee, as a traveller, and poverty as a man armed. But if thou be diligent, thy harvest shall come as a fountain, and want shall flee far from thee.
Proverbs 12:11He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that pursueth idleness is very foolish. He that is delighted in passing his time over wine, leaveth a reproach in his strong holds.
Proverbs 19:15Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Jonah 1:6And the shipmaster came to him, and said to him: Why art thou fast asleep? rise up, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think of us, that we may not perish.
Romans 13:11And that knowing the season; that it is now the hour for us to rise from sleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.
Ephesians 5:14Wherefore he saith: Rise thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead: and Christ shall enlighten 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 →