Proverbs 20:13
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20:13Do not love sleep,38 lest you become impoverished;
open your eyes so that39 you might be satisfied with food.40
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- 38 The proverb uses antithetical parallelism to teach that diligence leads to prosperity. It contrasts loving sleep with opening the eyes, and poverty with satisfaction. Just as “sleep” can be used for slothfulness or laziness, so opening the eyes can represent vigorous, active conduct. The idioms have caught on in modern usage as well—things like “open your eyes” or “asleep on the job.”
- 39 The second line uses two imperatives in a sequence (without the vav [ו]): “open your eyes” and then (or, in order that) you will “be satisfied.”
- 40 Heb “bread” (so , , ), although the term often serves in a generic sense for food in general.
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty;
open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
Do not love sleep or you will grow poor;
stay awake and you will have food to spare.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
Don’t love sleep, or you will become poor;
open your eyes, and you’ll have enough to eat.
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NLTNew Living Translation
If you love sleep, you will end in poverty.
Keep your eyes open, and there will be plenty to eat!
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
Do not love sleep, lest you become poor;
open your eyes and have plenty bread.
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KJV 1900King James Version
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty;
Open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
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