Proverbs 20:13

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

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WEBBE

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

BSB

Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of food.

KJV

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

ASV

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; Open thine eyes, [and] thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

BBE

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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Matthew Henry · Verse 13

Those that indulge themselves, may expect to want necessaries, which should have been gotten by honest labour.

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