Proverbs 20:13
Love not to speak ill, lest you be cut off: open your eyes, and be filled with bread.
LXX2012 (British)
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 hears, and the eye sees: even both of them are the Lord's work.
Cross References
Proverbs 6:11Then poverty comes upon you as an evil traveller, and lack as a swift courier: but if you be diligent, your harvest shall arrive as a fountain, and poverty shall flee away as a bad courier.
Proverbs 12:11He that tills his own land shall be satisfied with bread; but they that pursue vanities are void of understanding. He that enjoys himself in banquets of wine, shall leave dishonour in his own strong holds.
Proverbs 19:15+ 19:15 Or, keeps down. Cowardice possesses the effeminate man; and the soul of the sluggard shall hunger.
Jonah 1:6And the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, Why snore you? arise, and call upon your God, that God may save us, and we perish not.
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 →