Proverbs 20:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹³ Do not love sleep, or else you will come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹³ Don’t love sleep or you will be poor; stay alert and you will have plenty to eat.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ Do not love sleep, lest deprivation oppress you. Open your eyes and be satisfied with bread.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Proverbs 20:13 Cross References

Proverbs 10:4

A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

Proverbs 12:11

Those who till their land will have plenty of food, but those who follow worthless pursuits have no sense.

Proverbs 13:4

The appetite of the lazy craves and gets nothing, while the appetite of the diligent is richly supplied.

Proverbs 19:15

Laziness brings on deep sleep; an idle person will suffer hunger.

Proverbs 20:14

“Bad, bad,” says the buyer, then goes away and boasts.

Proverbs 28:19

Anyone who tills the land will have plenty of bread, but one who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.

Proverbs 31:15

She rises while it is still night and provides food for her household and tasks for her female servants.

Jonah 1:6

The captain came and said to him, “What are you doing sound asleep? Get up; call on your god! Perhaps the god will spare us a thought so that we do not perish.”

Romans 12:11

Do not lag in zeal; be ardent in spirit; serve the Lord.

Romans 13:11

Besides this, you know what time it is, how it is already the moment for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we became believers;

1 Corinthians 15:34

Sober up, as you rightly ought to, and sin no more, for some people have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

Ephesians 5:14

for everything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, “Sleeper, awake! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

2 Thessalonians 3:10

For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: anyone unwilling to work should not eat.