Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Do not love sleep or you will grow poor; stay awake and you will have food to spare. New Living Translation If you love sleep, you will end in poverty. Keep your eyes open, and there will be plenty to eat! English Standard Version Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread. Berean Standard Bible Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of food. King James Bible Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread. New King James Version Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty; Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with bread. New American Standard Bible Do not love sleep, or you will become poor; Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with food. NASB 1995 Do not love sleep, or you will become poor; Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with food. NASB 1977 Do not love sleep, lest you become poor; Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with food. Legacy Standard Bible Do not love sleep, lest you become poor; Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with food. Amplified Bible Do not love [excessive] sleep, or you will become poor; Open your eyes [so that you can do your work] and you will be satisfied with bread. Christian Standard Bible Don’t love sleep, or you will become poor; open your eyes, and you’ll have enough to eat. Holman Christian Standard Bible Don’t love sleep, or you will become poor; open your eyes, and you’ll have enough to eat.” American Standard Version Love not sleep, let thou come to poverty; Open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Do not love sleep, lest you become poor, but open your eyes and be satisfied with bread. Brenton Septuagint Translation Love not to speak ill, lest thou be cut off: open thine eyes, and be filled with bread. Contemporary English Version If you sleep all the time, you will starve; if you get up and work, you will have enough food. Douay-Rheims Bible Love not sleep, lest poverty oppress thee: open thy eyes, and be filled with bread. English Revised Version Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread. GOD'S WORD® Translation Do not love sleep or you will end up poor. Keep your eyes open, and you will have plenty to eat. Good News Translation If you spend your time sleeping, you will be poor. Keep busy and you will have plenty to eat. International Standard Version Do not love sleep or you'll become poor, keep your eyes open and you'll have plenty of food. JPS Tanakh 1917 Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; Open thine eyes, and thou shalt have bread in plenty. Literal Standard Version Do not love sleep, lest you become poor, | Open your eyes—be satisfied [with] bread. Majority Standard Bible Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of food. New American Bible Do not love sleep lest you be reduced to poverty; keep your eyes open, have your fill of food. NET Bible Do not love sleep, lest you become impoverished; open your eyes so that you might be satisfied with food. New Revised Standard Version Do not love sleep, or else you will come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread. New Heart English Bible Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread. Webster's Bible Translation Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thy eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread. World English Bible Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread. Young's Literal Translation Love not sleep, lest thou become poor, Open thine eyes -- be satisfied with bread. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Wine is a Mocker…12Ears that hear and eyes that see—the LORD has made them both. 13Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of food. 14“Worthless, worthless!” says the buyer, but on the way out, he gloats.… Cross References Proverbs 6:9 How long will you lie there, O slacker? When will you get up from your sleep? Proverbs 6:10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, Proverbs 19:15 Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger. Proverbs 20:14 "Worthless, worthless!" says the buyer, but on the way out, he gloats. Proverbs 24:33 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, Proverbs 28:19 The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty. Proverbs 31:15 She rises while it is still night to provide food for her household and portions for her maidservants. Treasury of Scripture Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread. love Proverbs 6:9-11 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? … Proverbs 10:4 He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich. Proverbs 12:11 He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding. open John 1:6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. Romans 13:11 And 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. 1 Corinthians 15:34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame. Jump to Previous Awake Bread Enough Eyes Food Grow Love Open Plenty Poor Poverty Satisfied Sleep SpareJump to Next Awake Bread Enough Eyes Food Grow Love Open Plenty Poor Poverty Satisfied Sleep SpareProverbs 20 1. Proper Living(13) Open thine eyes.--Be up and stirring.Verse 13. - Love not sleep lest thou come to poverty (see Proverbs 6:9, etc.). The fate of the sluggard is handled again in Proverbs 23:21, as often before; e.g. Proverbs 12:11; Proverbs 19:15. The LXX., taking שֵׁנָה (shenah), "sleep," as perhaps connected with the verb שְׁנָה (shanah), translate, "Love not to rail, that thou be not exalted (ἵνα μὴ ἐξαρωῇς)," i.e. probably, "Do not calumniate others in order to raise yourself;" others translate, "lest thou be cut off." Open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satired with bread. These words seem to connect this clause with ver. 12. God gives the faculty, but man must make due use thereof. The gnomist urges, "Do not slumber at your post, or sit downwardly waiting; but be up and doing, be wakeful and diligent, and then you shall prosper." Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Do notאַל־ (’al-) Adverb Strong's 408: Not love תֶּֽאֱהַ֣ב (te·’ĕ·haḇ) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 157: To have affection f sleep, שֵׁ֭נָה (nāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 8142: Sleep or פֶּן־ (pen-) Conjunction Strong's 6435: Removal, lest you will grow poor; תִּוָּרֵ֑שׁ (tiw·wā·rêš) Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 3423: To occupy, to seize, to rob, to inherit, to expel, to impoverish, to ruin open פְּקַ֖ח (pə·qaḥ) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular Strong's 6491: To open, to be observant your eyes, עֵינֶ֣יךָ (‘ê·ne·ḵā) Noun - cdc | second person masculine singular Strong's 5869: An eye, a fountain [and] you will have plenty שְֽׂבַֽע־ (śə·ḇa‘-) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular Strong's 7646: To be sated, satisfied or surfeited of food. לָֽחֶם׃ (lā·ḥem) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 3899: Food, bread, grain Links Proverbs 20:13 NIVProverbs 20:13 NLT Proverbs 20:13 ESV Proverbs 20:13 NASB Proverbs 20:13 KJV Proverbs 20:13 BibleApps.com Proverbs 20:13 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 20:13 Chinese Bible Proverbs 20:13 French Bible Proverbs 20:13 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 20:13 Don't love sleep lest you come (Prov. 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