Proverbs 20:13

World English Bible (2000)

Don't love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 19:15 : 15 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.
  • Prov 6:9-9 : 9 How long will you sleep, 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 your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.
  • Prov 12:11 : 11 He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.
  • Rom 12:11 : 11 not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
  • Rom 13:11 : 11 Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.
  • 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Wake up righteously, and don't sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."
  • 2 Thess 3:10 : 10 For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: "If anyone will not work, neither let him eat."
  • Prov 13:4 : 4 The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.
  • Prov 10:4 : 4 He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.
  • Prov 24:30-34 : 30 I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; 31 Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. 32 Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction: 33 a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep; 34 so your poverty will 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, sleeper? Arise, call on your God! Maybe your God will notice us, so that we won't perish."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 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. The 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 your poverty will 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, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his 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: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

  • Prov 6:9-11
    3 verses
    77%

    9 How long will you sleep, 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 your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.

  • Ps 127:2
    77%

    2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.

  • Prov 23:21
    72%

    21 for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

  • Prov 28:22
    72%

    22 A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn't know that poverty waits for him.

  • Prov 23:4-6
    3 verses
    72%

    4 Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

    5 Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

    6 Don't eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don't crave his delicacies:

  • Prov 13:4
    71%

    4 The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

  • Prov 28:19-20
    2 verses
    71%

    19 One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

    20 A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.

  • Prov 20:14
    71%

    14 "It's no good, it's no good," says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.

  • Prov 22:9
    71%

    9 He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

  • Mark 13:36
    71%

    36 lest coming suddenly he might 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 works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.

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

  • Ps 13:3
    70%

    3 Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;

  • Eccl 10:18
    70%

    18 By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

  • Prov 21:25
    70%

    25 The desire of the sluggard 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 business that is done on the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes),

  • Prov 21:17
    70%

    17 He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.

  • Deut 24:12
    69%

    12 If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;

  • Isa 55:2
    69%

    2 Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn't satisfy? listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

  • Prov 28:27
    69%

    27 One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

  • Prov 20:4
    69%

    4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

  • Job 33:15
    69%

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

  • Prov 14:23
    69%

    23 In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

  • 1 Thess 5:6
    69%

    6 so then let's not sleep, as the rest do, but let's watch and be sober.

  • Jer 31:26
    69%

    26 On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.

  • Prov 4:16
    69%

    16 For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

  • Prov 31:27
    69%

    27 She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn't eat the bread of idleness.

  • Prov 22:16
    69%

    16 Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

  • Prov 22:27
    69%

    27 If you don't have means 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 sluggard on his bed.

  • Prov 13:23
    68%

    23 An abundance of food is in poor people's fields, but injustice sweeps it away.

  • Prov 13:11
    68%

    11 Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.

  • Deut 24:15
    68%

    15 in his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it: lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.

  • Prov 4:25
    68%

    25 Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.