Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty. Open thine eyes, [and] thou shall be satisfied with bread.
New American Standard Bible
Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with
King James Version
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Holman Bible
open your eyes, and you’ll have enough 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.
American Standard Version
Love not sleep, let thou come to poverty; Open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Amplified
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.
Bible in Basic English
Do not be a lover of sleep, or you will become poor: keep your eyes open, and you will have bread enough.
Darby Translation
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Julia Smith Translation
Thou shalt not love sleep lest thou shalt be dispossessed: open wide thine eyes, being filled with bread.
King James 2000
Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Do not love sleep, lest you become poor; open your eyes [and] have plenty bread.
Modern King James verseion
Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes and you shall be satisfied with bread.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Delight not thou in sleep, lest thou come to poverty; but open thine eyes, and thou shalt have bread enough.
NET Bible
Do not love sleep, lest you become impoverished; open your eyes so that you might be satisfied with food.
New Heart English Bible
Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
The Emphasized Bible
Do not love sleep, lest thou come to poverty, open thine eyes, be satisfied with bread.
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Love not sleep, lest thou become poor, Open thine eyes -- be satisfied with bread.
Themes
Business life » Fidelity » Industry
Idleness and sloth » Lead to » Poverty
Indolent sleep » The love of sleep, a mark of indolence
The poor » Condition of, often results from » Sloth
Poverty » Who will end up in poverty
Sleep » The love of, a mark of indolence
Topics
Interlinear
Yarash
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 20:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Foolproof Instructions
12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, LORD has made even both of them. 13 Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty. Open thine eyes, [and] thou shall be satisfied with bread. 14 It is bad, it is bad, says the buyer, but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 19:15
Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and the idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Proverbs 6:9-11
How long will thou sleep, O sluggard? When will thou arise out of thy sleep?
Proverbs 12:11
He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who pursues vanities is void of understanding.
Romans 12:11
not lazy in diligence, being fervent in the Spirit serving the Lord,
Proverbs 10:4
He who works with a slack hand becomes poor, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.
Proverbs 13:4
The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
Proverbs 24:30-34
I went by the field of the sluggard, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding.
Jonah 1:6
So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, What do thou mean, O sleeper? Arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we not perish.
Romans 13:11
And this, knowing the time, that the hour is now for us to awake out of sleep. For our salvation is now nearer than when we believed.
1 Corinthians 15:34
Sober up rightly, and do not sin, for some have ignorance of God. I speak shame about you.
Ephesians 5:14
Therefore he says, Awake, thou who sleep. And arise from the dead, and the Christ will shine upon thee.
2 Thessalonians 3:10
For even when we were with you we commanded you this, that if any man will not work, neither let him eat.