Devine Scripture

Proverbs 20:13

Proverbs chapter 20 · verse 13 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Jehovah hath made even both of them.

v.13This passage

v.14It is bad, it is bad, saith the buyer; But when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Proverbs 24:30

    I went by the field of the sluggard, And by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;

  • Ephesians 5:14

    Wherefore he saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.

  • Proverbs 13:4

    The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing; But the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

  • 2 Thessalonians 3:10

    For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, If any will not work, neither let him eat.

  • Romans 13:11

    And this, knowing the season, that already it is time for you to awake out of sleep: for now is salvation nearer to us than when wefirstbelieved.

  • 1 Corinthians 15:34

    Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak this to move you to shame.