Proverbs 20:13
Loue not sleepe least thou come vnto pouertie: open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 Lord hath made both these, euen the eare to heare, and the eye to see.
14It is naught, it is naught, sayth the buyer: but when he is gone apart, he boasteth.
Cross References
Proverbs 6:11Therefore thy pouertie commeth as one that trauaileth by the way, and thy necessitie like an armed man.
Proverbs 12:11He that tilleth his lande, shalbe satisfied with bread: but he that followeth the idle, is destitute of vnderstanding.
Proverbs 19:15Slouthfulnes causeth to fall asleepe, and a deceitfull person shall be affamished.
Jonah 1:6So the shipmaster came to him, and saide vnto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? Arise, call vpon thy God, if so be that God wil thinke vpon vs, that we perish not.
Romans 13:11And that, considering the season, that it is now time that we should arise from sleepe: for now is our saluation neerer, then when we beleeued it.
Ephesians 5:14Wherefore hee sayeth, Awake thou that sleepest, and stande vp from the deade, and Christ shall giue 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 →