Proverbs 20:13
Do not love sleep, lest thou come to poverty, open thine eyes, be satisfied with bread.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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, Yahweh hath made them, both.
14Bad! bad! saith the buyer, but, going his way, then, he boasteth.
Cross References
Proverbs 6:11So shall come in, as a highwayman, thy poverty, and, thy want, as one armed with a shield.
Proverbs 12:11He that tilleth his land, shall be filled with food, but, he that runneth after worthless men, lacketh sense.
Proverbs 19:15Sloth, falleth into a deep sleep, and, a soul that is indolent, shall famish.
Jonah 1:6Then drew near unto him the shipmaster, and said to him, What meanest thou, O sound sleeper? Arise, cry unto thy God, Peradventure God will bethink himself of us, that we perish not.
Romans 13:11And, this besides,—knowing the season—that it is an hour already for you out of sleep to be wakened; for, now, is our salvation nearer than when we believed:
Ephesians 5:14Wherefore it saith—Up! thou sleeper, and arise from among the dead, and the Christ will shine upon thee.
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 →