Proverbs 20:13

KJV1611 – Modern English

Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

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  • Prov 19:15 : 15 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
  • Prov 6:9-9 : 9 How long will you sleep, O sluggard? when will you arise out of your sleep? 10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: 11 So shall your poverty come upon you like a traveler, and your need like an armed man.
  • Prov 12:11 : 11 He who tills his land will be satisfied with bread, but he who follows vain persons is void of understanding.
  • Rom 12:11 : 11 Not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
  • Rom 13:11 : 11 And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.
  • 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Awake to righteousness and do not sin; for some do not have the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 Therefore he says, Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.
  • 2 Thess 3:10 : 10 For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat.
  • Prov 13:4 : 4 The soul of the sluggard desires and has nothing, but the soul of the diligent shall be made rich.
  • Prov 10:4 : 4 He becomes poor who deals with a slack hand, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.
  • Prov 24:30-34 : 30 I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding. 31 And, behold, it was all overgrown with thorns, its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. 32 Then I saw, and considered it well; I looked upon it, and received instruction. 33 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep. 34 So shall your poverty come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.
  • Jonah 1:6 : 6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, What do you mean, O sleeper? arise, call upon your God, perhaps that God will consider us, that we do not perish.

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%

    4 Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.

  • Prov 19:15
    79%

    15 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

  • Prov 24:33-34
    2 verses
    79%

    33 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.

    34 So shall your poverty come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.

  • Eccl 5:10-13
    4 verses
    78%

    10 He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance with increase; this also is vanity.

    11 When goods increase, they who eat them increase, and what good is there to the owners, except the beholding of them with their eyes?

    12 The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

    13 There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners to their hurt.

  • Prov 6:9-11
    3 verses
    77%

    9 How long will you sleep, O sluggard? when will you arise out of your sleep?

    10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

    11 So shall your poverty come upon you like a traveler, and your need like an armed man.

  • Ps 127:2
    77%

    2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, to eat the bread of sorrows; for He gives His beloved sleep.

  • Prov 23:21
    72%

    21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

  • Prov 28:22
    72%

    22 He who hastens to be rich has an evil eye and does not consider that poverty shall come upon him.

  • Prov 23:4-6
    3 verses
    72%

    4 Do not labor to be rich; cease from your own wisdom.

    5 Will you set your eyes on that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

    6 Do not eat the bread of him who has an evil eye, nor desire his delicacies:

  • Prov 13:4
    71%

    4 The soul of the sluggard desires and has nothing, but the soul of the diligent shall be made rich.

  • Prov 28:19-20
    2 verses
    71%

    19 He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who follows vain persons shall have poverty enough.

    20 A faithful person shall abound with blessings, but he who hastens to be rich shall not be innocent.

  • Prov 20:14
    71%

    14 It is worthless, it is worthless, says the buyer; but when he has gone his way, then he boasts.

  • Prov 22:9
    71%

    9 He who has a bountiful eye shall be blessed, for he gives of his bread to the poor.

  • Mark 13:36
    71%

    36 Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

  • Ps 132:4
    71%

    4 I will not give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids,

  • Prov 10:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4 He becomes poor who deals with a slack hand, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

    5 He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who causes shame.

  • Ps 13:3
    70%

    3 Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: enlighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

  • Eccl 10:18
    70%

    18 By much slothfulness the building decays; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

  • Prov 21:25
    70%

    25 The desire of the slothful kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

  • Eccl 8:16
    70%

    16 When I applied my heart to know wisdom and to see the work that is done upon the earth (for there are those who neither day nor night see sleep with their eyes),

  • Prov 21:17
    70%

    17 He who loves pleasure will be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.

  • Deut 24:12
    69%

    12 And if the man is poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge:

  • Isa 55:2
    69%

    2 Why do you spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in abundance.

  • Prov 28:27
    69%

    27 He who gives to the poor shall not lack, but he who hides his eyes will have many curses.

  • Prov 20:4
    69%

    4 The sluggard will not plow because of the cold; therefore he shall beg during harvest, and have nothing.

  • Job 33:15
    69%

    15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

  • Prov 14:23
    69%

    23 In all labor there is profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.

  • 1 Thess 5:6
    69%

    6 Therefore let us not sleep, as others do; but let us watch and be sober.

  • Jer 31:26
    69%

    26 Upon this I awoke, and looked around; and my sleep was sweet to me.

  • Prov 4:16
    69%

    16 For they do not sleep unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

  • Prov 31:27
    69%

    27 She watches over the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.

  • Prov 22:16
    69%

    16 He who oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he who gives to the rich, shall surely come to want.

  • Prov 22:27
    69%

    27 If you have nothing to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

  • Prov 26:14
    68%

    14 As the door turns on its hinges, so does the lazy one turn upon his bed.

  • Prov 13:23
    68%

    23 Much food is in the tillage of the poor, but there is that which is destroyed for lack of judgment.

  • Prov 13:11
    68%

    11 Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished, but he who gathers by labor shall increase.

  • Deut 24:15
    68%

    15 You shall give him his wages on the same day, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and sets his heart upon it: lest he cry against you to the LORD, and it be sin to you.

  • Prov 4:25
    68%

    25 Let your eyes look straight ahead, and let your eyelids look straight before you.

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