Proverbs 20:13
If you love sleeping you'll become poor. Wake up and get busy, and you'll have plenty to eat.
Free Bible 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 Lord made our ears to hear and our eyes to see.
Cross References
Proverbs 6:11and poverty will attack you like a robber, destitution like an armed warrior.
Proverbs 12:11If you cultivate the land you'll have plenty of food, but if you chase after worthless things you're stupid.
Proverbs 19:15Lazy people are often fast asleep, but idleness means they're hungry.
Jonah 1:6The ship's captain went to Jonah and asked him, “How can you be sleeping? Get up and pray to your God. Maybe he will take notice of what's happening to us and we won't drown.”
Romans 13:11You should do this because you realize how urgent the time is—that it's high time for you to wake up from your sleep. For salvation is closer to us now than when we first put our trust in God.
Ephesians 5:14That's why it's said, “Wake up, those of you who are sleeping, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
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 →