Proverbs 20:13
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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- 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.
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4 Give no sleep to your eyes, or rest to them;
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15 Hate of work sends deep sleep on a man: and he who has no industry will go without food.
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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.
- Eccl 5:10-134 verses78%
10 When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?
11 The sleep of a working man is sweet, if he has little food or much; but to him who is full, sleep will not come.
12 There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.
13 And 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 6:9-113 verses77%
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
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2 It 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.
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21 For 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.
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22 He who is ever desiring wealth goes running after money, and does not see that need will come on him.
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4 Take no care to get wealth; let there be an end to your desire for money.
5 Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.
6 Do not take the food of him who has an evil eye, or have any desire for his delicate meat:
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4 The hater of work does not get his desires, but the soul of the hard workers will be made fat.
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19 By ploughing his land a man will have bread in full measure; but he who goes after good-for-nothing persons will be poor enough.
20 A man of good faith will have great blessing, but one attempting to get wealth quickly will not go free from punishment.
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14 A 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.
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9 He who is kind will have a blessing, for he gives of his bread to the poor.
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36 For fear that, coming suddenly, he sees you sleeping.
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4 I will not give sleep to my eyes, or rest to my eyeballs,
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4 He who is slow in his work becomes poor, but the hand of the ready worker gets in wealth.
5 He 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.
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3 Let 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;
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18 When no work is done the roof goes in, and when the hands do nothing water comes into the house.
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25 The desire of the hater of work is death to him, for his hands will do no work.
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16 When 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),
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17 The lover of pleasure will be a poor man: the lover of wine and oil will not get wealth.
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12 If he is a poor man, do not keep his property all night;
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2 Why 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.
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27 He who gives to the poor will never be in need, but great curses will be on him who gives no attention to them.
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4 The 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.
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15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep comes on men, while they take their rest on their beds;
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23 In all hard work there is profit, but talk only makes a man poor.
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6 So then, let us not take our rest as the others do, but let us be self-controlled and awake.
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26 At this, awaking from my sleep, I saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.
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16 For 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.
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27 She gives attention to the ways of her family, she does not take her food without working for it.
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16 He 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.
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27 If you have nothing with which to make payment, he will take away your bed from under you.
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14 A door is turned on its pillar, and the hater of work on his bed.
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23 There is much food in the ploughed land of the poor; but it is taken away by wrongdoing.
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11 Wealth quickly got will become less; but he who gets a store by the work of his hands will have it increased.
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15 Give 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.
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25 Keep your eyes on what is in front of you, looking straight before you.