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Proverbs 20:13
Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of food.
Proverbs 20:13 · Berean Standard Bible
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Proverbs 20:13 in other translations
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
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In context
10 Differing weights and unequal measures — both are detestable to the LORD.
11 Even a young man is known by his actions— whether his conduct is pure and upright.
12 Ears that hear and eyes that see— the LORD has made them both.
13 Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of food.
14 “Worthless, worthless!” says the buyer, but on the way out, he gloats.
15 There is an abundance of gold and rubies, but lips of knowledge are a rare treasure.
16 Take the garment of the one who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.
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