13Don't love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.


In Context

10 Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

11 Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.

12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Yahweh has made even both of them.

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

14 |It's no good, it's no good,| says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.

15 There is gold and abundance of rubies; but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.

Proverbs 20:13 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:13Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, [and] thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

20:13Do not love sleep or you will grow poor; stay awake and you will have food to spare.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

20:13Love not sleep, lest poverty oppress thee: open thy eyes, and be filled with bread.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

20:13Love not sleep, let thou come to poverty; Open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:13Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

20:13Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:13Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thy eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

20:13Love not sleep, lest thou become poor, Open thine eyes — be satisfied with bread.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:13Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.