Parallel Verses
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.
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
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Yarash
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 20:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Foolproof Instructions
12
The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the LORD has made them both.
13
Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 19:15
Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.
Proverbs 6:9-11
How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep?
Proverbs 12:11
Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.
Romans 12:11
Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit,serve the Lord.
Proverbs 10:4
A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.
Proverbs 13:4
The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.
Proverbs 24:30-34
I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of a man lacking sense,
Jonah 1:6
So the captain came and said to him, "What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, call out to your god! Perhaps the god will give a thought to us, that we may not perish."
Romans 13:11
Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.
1 Corinthians 15:34
Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
Ephesians 5:14
for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."
2 Thessalonians 3:10
For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.