Proverbs 20:13
Do not love sleep or you will come to poverty; 1 open your eyes and you will have plenty to eat. 1
Unlocked Literal 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
12Ears that hear and eyes that see— 1 Yahweh made them both. 1
14“Bad! Bad!” says the buyer, 1 but when he goes away he boasts. 1
Cross References
Proverbs 6:11and your poverty will come like a robber 1 and your needs like an armed soldier. 1
Proverbs 12:11The one who works his land will have plenty of food, 1 but whoever chases after worthless projects has no sense. 1
Proverbs 19:15Laziness throws a person into a deep sleep, 1 but the one not willing to work will go hungry. 1
Jonah 1:6So the captain came to him and said to him, “What are you doing sleeping? Get up! Call upon your god! Maybe your god will notice us and we will not perish.”
Romans 13:11Because of this, you know the time, that it is already time for you to awake out of sleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.
Ephesians 5:14For anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, 1 “Awake, you sleeper, 1 and arise from the dead, 1 and 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 →