A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.
Proverbs 20:13 - Revised Standard Version Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; Open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes and you will be satisfied with bread. American Standard Version (1901) Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; Open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread. Common English Bible Don’t love sleep or you will be poor; stay alert and you will have plenty to eat. Catholic Public Domain Version Do not love sleep, lest deprivation oppress you. Open your eyes and be satisfied with bread. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Love not sleep, lest poverty oppress thee: open thy eyes, and be filled with bread. |
A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.
He who tills his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits has no sense.
The soul of the sluggard craves, and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.
Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.
“It is bad, it is bad,” says the buyer; but when he goes away, then he boasts.
He who tills his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.
She rises while it is yet night and provides food for her household and tasks for her maidens.
So the captain came and said to him, “What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, call upon your god! Perhaps the god will give a thought to us, that we do not perish.”
Besides this you know what hour it is, how it is full time now for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed;
Come to your right mind, and sin no more. For some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
Therefore it is said, “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.”
For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: If any one will not work, let him not eat.