Proverbs 20:13
Love not sheynah (sleep), lest thou come to poverty; 1 open thine eynayim, and thou shalt have enough lechem. 1
Orthodox Jewish 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 hearing ozen, and the seeing ayin, 1 Hashem hath made even both of them. 1
Cross References
Proverbs 6:11So shall thy poverty come as a prowler, 1 and thy need as an ish mogen (man of armor). 1
Proverbs 12:11He that worketh his adamah shall be satisfied with lechem, 1 but he that chaseth after worthless persons is devoid of lev. + 12:11 of understanding 1
Proverbs 19:15Atzlah (slothfulness, laziness) casteth into a tardemah (deep sleep), 1 and a nefesh remiyyah (a deceitfully lazy soul) shall suffer hunger. 1
Jonah 1:6So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? Arise, call upon Eloheicha, if so be that HaElohim will think upon us, that we perish not.
Romans 13:11Besides this, you have da'as of the zman, that it is already the hour for you to wake up from sheynah (sleep), for now is Yeshu'at Eloheinu nearer than when we became ma'aminim (believers).
Ephesians 5:14For everything becoming visible is HaOhr (Light); therefore here is the meaning of these words, KUMI + 5:14 Isa 51:17; 60:1 (Rise up), sleeper, and arise from the MESIM, + 5:14 Isa 26:19 AND Moshiach WILL SHINE ON YOU. + 5:14 Isa 60:1-2; Mal 3:20
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 →