Proverbs 20:13
World English Bible (WEB)
Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
In context
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, the LORD 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 every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
- KJV King James Version
- Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of food.
- ASV American Standard Version
- Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; Open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- Love not sleep, lest thou become poor, Open thine eyes — be satisfied [with] bread.
- DBY Darby Translation
- Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, [and] thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
- WBS Webster Bible
- Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thy eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.