💡WEB · Proverbs 20:13
What does Proverbs 20:13 mean?
"Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread."
— Proverbs 20:13 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Yahweh has made even both of them.
Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
“It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
There is gold and abundance of rubies; but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.
Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.
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