Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes and you 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.
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 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 has made both of them. 13 Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes and you shall be satisfied with bread. 14 It is bad! Bad, says the buyer; but when it is left to him, then he boasts.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 19:15
Laziness throws one into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Proverbs 6:9-11
How long will you sleep, O sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?
Proverbs 12:11
He who tills his land shall be satisfied with bread; but he who follows vanities lacks heart.
Romans 12:11
As to diligence, not slothful, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord;
Proverbs 10:4
He who deals with a lazy hand becomes poor; but the hand of the hard worker makes rich.
Proverbs 13:4
The soul of the sluggard desires and has nothing; but the soul of the hard worker shall be made fat.
Proverbs 24:30-34
I went by the field of the lazy man, and by the vineyard of the man without understanding;
Jonah 1:6
And the chief of the seaman came to him and said to him, What is it to you, O sound sleeper? Arise, call upon your God! It may be that our god will notice us, and we will not perish.
Romans 13:11
This also, knowing the time, that it is already time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.
1 Corinthians 15:34
Be righteously awake, and sin not; for some have ignorance of God. I speak this to your shame.
Ephesians 5:14
Therefore he says, "Awake, sleeping ones! And arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light."
2 Thessalonians 3:10
For even when we were with you, we commanded you this, that if anyone would not work, neither should he eat.