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Proverbs 20:13

World English Bible

Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty.
Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

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Proverbs 20:13 in other translations

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; Open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

Proverbs 20:13 · American Standard Version

Proverbs 20:13 in context

  1. 11Even a child makes himself known by his doings,
    whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.
  2. 12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye,
    Yahweh has made even both of them.
  3. 13Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty.
    Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
  4. 14“It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer;
    but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
  5. 15There is gold and abundance of rubies,
    but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.