Proverbs 20:13
Good News Translation
If you spend your time sleeping, you will be poor. Keep busy and you will have plenty to eat.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not love sleep, or else you will come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.

Contemporary English Version
If you sleep all the time, you will starve; if you get up and work, you will have enough food.

New American Bible
Do not love sleep lest you be reduced to poverty; keep your eyes open, have your fill of food.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Love not sleep, lest poverty oppress thee: open thy eyes, and be filled with bread.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Love not sleep, lest poverty oppress thee: open thy eyes, and be filled with bread.

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Proverbs 6:9-11 Thou wilt sleep a little, thou wilt slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little to sleep: . . .

Proverbs 10:4 He that gathereth in the harvest, is a wise son: but he that snorteth in the summer, is the son of confusion.

Proverbs 12:11 He that is delighted in passing his time over wine, leaveth a reproach in his strong holds.

Proverbs 13:4 The sluggard willeth, and willeth not: but the soul of them that work, shall be made fat.

Proverbs 19:15 Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Proverbs 24:30-34 I passed by the field of the slothful man, and by the vineyard of the foolish man: . . .

Romans 12:11 In carefulness not slothful. In spirit fervent. Serving the Lord.

2 Thessalonians 3:10 For also, when we were with you, this we declared to you: that, if any man will not work, neither let him eat.

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John 1:6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

Romans 13:11 And that, knowing the season, that it is now the hour for us to rise from sleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.

1 Corinthians 15:34 Awake, ye just, and sin not. For some have not the knowledge of God. I speak it to your shame.

Ephesians 5:14 Wherefore he saith: Rise, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead: and Christ shall enlighten thee.

Context
Wine is a Mocker
12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made them both. 13Love not sleep, lest poverty oppress thee: open thy eyes, and be filled with bread.14It is naught, it is naught, saith every buyer: and when he is gone away, then he will boast.…
Cross References
Proverbs 6:9
Thou wilt sleep a little, thou wilt slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little to sleep:

Proverbs 6:10
And want shall come upon thee, as a traveller, and poverty as a man armed. But if thou be diligent, thy harvest shall come as a fountain, and want shall flee far from thee.

Proverbs 19:15
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Proverbs 20:14
It is naught, it is naught, saith every buyer: and when he is gone away, then he will boast.

Proverbs 24:33
Thou wilt sleep a little, said I, thou wilt slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little to rest.

Proverbs 28:19
He that tilleth his ground, shall be filled with bread: but he that followeth idleness, shall be filled with poverty.

Proverbs 31:15
And she hath risen in the night, and given a prey to her household, and victuals to her maidens.

Proverbs 20:12
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