Proverbs 20:13
Do not love sleep, lest you become poor, || Open your eyes—be satisfied [with] bread.
Literal Standard 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
12A hearing ear, and a seeing eye—YHWH has even made both of them.
14“Bad, bad,” says the buyer, || And then he boasts himself going his way.
Cross References
Proverbs 6:11And your poverty has come as a traveler, || And your want as an armed man.
Proverbs 12:11Whoever is tilling the ground is satisfied [with] bread, || And whoever is pursuing vanities is lacking heart,
Proverbs 19:15Sloth causes deep sleep to fall, || And an indolent soul hungers.
Jonah 1:6And the chief of the company draws near to him and says to him, “What are you [doing], O sleeper? Rise, call to your God, it may be God considers Himself of us, and we do not perish.”
Romans 13:11And this, knowing the time, that for us, the hour already [is] to be aroused out of sleep, for now our salvation [is] nearer than when we believed;
Ephesians 5:14for this reason it says, “Arouse yourself, you who are sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and the 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 →