Proverbs Chapter 20 verse 13 Holy Bible
Love not sleep, let thou come to poverty; Open thine eyes, `and' thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
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Do not be a lover of sleep, or you will become poor: keep your eyes open, and you will have bread enough.
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Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, [and] thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
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Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
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Don't love sleep, lest you come to poverty; Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
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Love not sleep, lest thou become poor, Open thine eyes -- be satisfied `with' bread.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 13. - Love not sleep lest thou come to poverty (see Proverbs 6:9, etc.). The fate of the sluggard is handled again in Proverbs 23:21, as often before; e.g. Proverbs 12:11; Proverbs 19:15. The LXX., taking שֵׁנָה (shenah), "sleep," as perhaps connected with the verb שְׁנָה (shanah), translate, "Love not to rail, that thou be not exalted (ἵνα μὴ ἐξαρωῇς)," i.e. probably, "Do not calumniate others in order to raise yourself;" others translate, "lest thou be cut off." Open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satired with bread. These words seem to connect this clause with ver. 12. God gives the faculty, but man must make due use thereof. The gnomist urges, "Do not slumber at your post, or sit downwardly waiting; but be up and doing, be wakeful and diligent, and then you shall prosper."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(13) Open thine eyes.--Be up and stirring.
