Proverbs 20:13
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; Open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Noyes Bible
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 made them both.
14“Bad! bad!” saith the buyer; But when he hath gone his way, then he boasteth.
Cross References
Proverbs 6:11So shall thy poverty come upon thee like a robber, Yea, thy want, as an armed man!
Proverbs 12:11He who tilleth his own land shall be satisfied with bread; But he who followeth worthless persons is void of understanding.
Proverbs 19:15Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep, And the idle person shall suffer hunger.
Jonah 1:6And the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? Arise, call upon thy God! Perhaps God will think upon us, that we perish not.
Romans 13:11And this, since we know the time, that it is already high time for us to awake out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we became believers.
Ephesians 5:14Wherefore he saith, “Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give thee 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 →