Parallel Verses
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.
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.
A Conservative Version
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty. Open thine eyes, [and] thou shall be satisfied with bread.
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.
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 are equally the Lord's work. 13 Do not be a lover of sleep, or you will become poor: keep your eyes open, and you will have bread enough. 14 A poor thing, a poor thing, says he who is giving money for goods: but when he has gone on his way, then he makes clear his pride in what he has got.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 19:15
Hate of work sends deep sleep on a man: and he who has no industry will go without food.
Proverbs 6:9-11
How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep?
Proverbs 12:11
He who does work on his land will not be short of bread; but he who goes after foolish men is without sense.
Romans 12:11
Be not slow in your work, but be quick in spirit, as the Lord's servants;
Proverbs 10:4
He who is slow in his work becomes poor, but the hand of the ready worker gets in wealth.
Proverbs 13:4
The hater of work does not get his desires, but the soul of the hard workers will be made fat.
Proverbs 24:30-34
I went by the field of the hater of work, and by the vine-garden of the man without sense;
Jonah 1:6
And the ship's captain came to him and said to him, What are you doing sleeping? Up! say a prayer to your God, if by chance God will give a thought to us, so that we may not come to destruction.
Romans 13:11
See then that the time has come for you to be awake from sleep: for now is your salvation nearer than when you first had faith.
1 Corinthians 15:34
Be awake to righteousness and keep yourselves from sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I say this to put you to shame.
Ephesians 5:14
For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.
2 Thessalonians 3:10
For even when we were with you we gave you orders, saying, If any man does no work, let him not have food.