Proverbs 20:13
Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty.Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
New Heart English 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 ear, and the seeing eye,The Lord has made even both of them.
14"It's no good, it's no good," says the buyer;but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
Cross References
Proverbs 6:11so your poverty will come as a robber,and your scarcity as an armed man.
Proverbs 12:11He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread,but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.
Proverbs 19:15Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep.The idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Jonah 1:6So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, "What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God! Maybe your God will notice us, so that we won't perish."
Romans 13:11Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.
Ephesians 5:14Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, 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 →