Proverbs 20:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Do not be a lover of sleep, or you will become poor: keep your eyes open, and you will have bread enough.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 19:15 : 15 Hate of work sends deep sleep on a man: and he who has no industry will go without food.
  • Prov 6:9-9 : 9 How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep? 10 A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep: 11 Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man
  • Prov 12:11 : 11 He who does work on his land will not be short of bread; but he who goes after foolish men is without sense.
  • Rom 12:11 : 11 Be not slow in your work, but be quick in spirit, as the Lord's servants;
  • Rom 13:11 : 11 See then that the time has come for you to be awake from sleep: for now is your salvation nearer than when you first had faith.
  • 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Be awake to righteousness and keep yourselves from sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I say this to put you to shame.
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.
  • 2 Thess 3:10 : 10 For even when we were with you we gave you orders, saying, If any man does no work, let him not have food.
  • Prov 13:4 : 4 The hater of work does not get his desires, but the soul of the hard workers will be made fat.
  • Prov 10:4 : 4 He who is slow in his work becomes poor, but the hand of the ready worker gets in wealth.
  • Prov 24:30-34 : 30 I went by the field of the hater of work, and by the vine-garden of the man without sense; 31 And it was all full of thorns, and covered with waste plants, and its stone wall was broken down. 32 Then looking at it, I gave thought: I saw, and I got teaching from it. 33 A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep: 34 So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.
  • Jonah 1:6 : 6 And the ship's captain came to him and said to him, What are you doing sleeping? Up! say a prayer to your God, if by chance God will give a thought to us, so that we may not come to destruction.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Prov 6:4
    80%

    4Give no sleep to your eyes, or rest to them;

  • Prov 19:15
    79%

    15Hate of work sends deep sleep on a man: and he who has no industry will go without food.

  • Prov 24:33-34
    2 verses
    79%

    33A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:

    34So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.

  • Eccl 5:10-13
    4 verses
    78%

    10When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?

    11The sleep of a working man is sweet, if he has little food or much; but to him who is full, sleep will not come.

    12There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.

    13And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.

  • Prov 6:9-11
    3 verses
    77%

    9How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep?

    10A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:

    11Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man

  • Ps 127:2
    77%

    2It is of no use for you to get up early, and to go late to your rest, with the bread of sorrow for your food; for the Lord gives to his loved ones in sleep.

  • Prov 23:21
    72%

    21For those who take delight in drink and feasting will come to be in need; and through love of sleep a man will be poorly clothed.

  • Prov 28:22
    72%

    22He who is ever desiring wealth goes running after money, and does not see that need will come on him.

  • Prov 23:4-6
    3 verses
    72%

    4Take no care to get wealth; let there be an end to your desire for money.

    5Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.

    6Do not take the food of him who has an evil eye, or have any desire for his delicate meat:

  • Prov 13:4
    71%

    4The hater of work does not get his desires, but the soul of the hard workers will be made fat.

  • Prov 28:19-20
    2 verses
    71%

    19By ploughing his land a man will have bread in full measure; but he who goes after good-for-nothing persons will be poor enough.

    20A man of good faith will have great blessing, but one attempting to get wealth quickly will not go free from punishment.

  • Prov 20:14
    71%

    14A poor thing, a poor thing, says he who is giving money for goods: but when he has gone on his way, then he makes clear his pride in what he has got.

  • Prov 22:9
    71%

    9He who is kind will have a blessing, for he gives of his bread to the poor.

  • Mark 13:36
    71%

    36For fear that, coming suddenly, he sees you sleeping.

  • Ps 132:4
    71%

    4I will not give sleep to my eyes, or rest to my eyeballs,

  • Prov 10:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4He who is slow in his work becomes poor, but the hand of the ready worker gets in wealth.

    5He who in summer gets together his store is a son who does wisely; but he who takes his rest when the grain is being cut is a son causing shame.

  • Ps 13:3
    70%

    3Let my voice come before you, and give me an answer, O Lord my God; let your light be shining on me, so that the sleep of death may not overtake me;

  • Eccl 10:18
    70%

    18When no work is done the roof goes in, and when the hands do nothing water comes into the house.

  • Prov 21:25
    70%

    25The desire of the hater of work is death to him, for his hands will do no work.

  • Eccl 8:16
    70%

    16When I gave my mind to the knowledge of wisdom and to seeing the business which is done on the earth (and there are those whose eyes see not sleep by day or by night),

  • Prov 21:17
    70%

    17The lover of pleasure will be a poor man: the lover of wine and oil will not get wealth.

  • Deut 24:12
    69%

    12If he is a poor man, do not keep his property all night;

  • Isa 55:2
    69%

    2Why do you give your money for what is not bread, and the fruit of your work for what will not give you pleasure? Give ear to me, so that your food may be good, and you may have the best in full measure.

  • Prov 28:27
    69%

    27He who gives to the poor will never be in need, but great curses will be on him who gives no attention to them.

  • Prov 20:4
    69%

    4The hater of work will not do his ploughing because of the winter; so at the time of grain-cutting he will be requesting food and will get nothing.

  • Job 33:15
    69%

    15In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep comes on men, while they take their rest on their beds;

  • Prov 14:23
    69%

    23In all hard work there is profit, but talk only makes a man poor.

  • 1 Thess 5:6
    69%

    6So then, let us not take our rest as the others do, but let us be self-controlled and awake.

  • Jer 31:26
    69%

    26At this, awaking from my sleep, I saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.

  • Prov 4:16
    69%

    16For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.

  • Prov 31:27
    69%

    27She gives attention to the ways of her family, she does not take her food without working for it.

  • Prov 22:16
    69%

    16He who is cruel to the poor for the purpose of increasing his profit, and he who gives to the man of wealth, will only come to be in need.

  • Prov 22:27
    69%

    27If you have nothing with which to make payment, he will take away your bed from under you.

  • Prov 26:14
    68%

    14A door is turned on its pillar, and the hater of work on his bed.

  • Prov 13:23
    68%

    23There is much food in the ploughed land of the poor; but it is taken away by wrongdoing.

  • Prov 13:11
    68%

    11Wealth quickly got will become less; but he who gets a store by the work of his hands will have it increased.

  • Deut 24:15
    68%

    15Give him his payment day by day, not keeping it back over night; for he is poor and his living is dependent on it; and if his cry against you comes to the ears of the Lord, it will be judged as sin in you.

  • Prov 4:25
    68%

    25Keep your eyes on what is in front of you, looking straight before you.