Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt 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.
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.
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.
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, Jehovah hath made even both of them. 13 Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread. 14 Bad! bad! saith the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 19:15
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep, and the idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Proverbs 6:9-11
How long, sluggard, wilt thou lie down? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
Proverbs 12:11
He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread; but he that followeth the worthless is void of understanding.
Romans 12:11
as to diligent zealousness, not slothful; in spirit fervent; serving the Lord.
Proverbs 10:4
He cometh to want that dealeth with a slack hand; but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
Proverbs 13:4
A sluggard's soul desireth and hath nothing; but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
Proverbs 24:30-34
I went by the field of a sluggard, and by the vineyard of a man void of understanding;
Jonah 1:6
And the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, sleeper? arise, call upon thy God; perhaps God will think upon us, that we perish not.
Romans 13:11
This also, knowing the time, that it is already time that we should be aroused out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
1 Corinthians 15:34
Awake up righteously, and sin not; for some are ignorant of God: I speak to you as a matter of shame.
Ephesians 5:14
Wherefore he says, Wake up, thou that sleepest, and arise up from among the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.
2 Thessalonians 3:10
For also when we were with you we enjoined you this, that if any man does not like to work, neither let him eat.