Proverbs 20:13
Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open yours eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
Updated King James Version
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.
14It is nil, it is nil, says the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
Cross References
Proverbs 6:11So shall your poverty come as one that travels, and your lack as an armed man.
Proverbs 12:11He that tills his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that follows vain persons is void of understanding.
Proverbs 19:15Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Jonah 1:6So the ship captain came to him, and said unto him, What mean you, O sleeper? arise, call upon your God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
Romans 13:11And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
Ephesians 5:14Wherefore he says, Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you 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 →