Proverbs 20:13
Love not sleep, lest thou become poor, Open thine eyes — be satisfied [with] bread.
Young's Literal Translation
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
12A hearing ear, and a seeing eye, Jehovah hath made even both of them.
14'Bad, bad,' saith the buyer, And going his way then he boasteth himself.
Cross References
Proverbs 6:11And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man.
Proverbs 12:11Whoso is tilling the ground is satisfied [with] bread, And whoso is pursuing vanities is lacking heart,
Proverbs 19:15Sloth causeth deep sleep to fall, And an indolent soul doth hunger.
Jonah 1:6And the chief of the company draweth near to him, and saith to him, 'What — to thee, O sleeper? rise, call unto thy God, it may be God doth bethink himself of us, and we do not perish.'
Romans 13:11And this, knowing the time, that for us, the hour already [is] to be aroused out of sleep, for now nearer [is] our salvation than when we did believe;
Ephesians 5:14wherefore he saith, 'Arouse thyself, thou who art sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and the Christ shall 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 →