Proverbs 20:13
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty: open thy eyes, so wilt thou be satisfied with bread.
Leeser Tanakh
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 ear that heareth, and the eye that seeth, the Lord hath made both of them alike.
14It is bad, it is bad, saith the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then doth he boast.
Cross References
Proverbs 6:11But then will thy poverty come like a rover, and thy want as a man armed with a shield.
Proverbs 12:11He that tilleth his ground will be satisfied with bread; but he that runneth after idle persons is void of sense.
Proverbs 19:15Slothfulness casteth [man] into a deep sleep; and an indolent soul will suffer hunger.
Jonah 1:6So the ship-master came near unto him, and said unto him, Why dost thou sleep? arise, call upon thy God: perhaps it be that God will think of us, that we may not be lost.
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 →