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Proverbs 20:13
Love not sleep, lest poverty oppress thee: open thy eyes, and be filled with bread.
Proverbs 20:13 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
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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.
Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of food.
Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
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In context
10 Diverse weights and diverse measures, both are abominable before God.
11 By his inclinations a child is known, if his works be clean and right.
12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made them both.
13 Love not sleep, lest poverty oppress thee: open thy eyes, and be filled with bread.
14 It is naught, it is naught, saith every buyer: and when he is gone away, then he will boast.
15 There is gold and a multitude of jewels: but the lips of knowledge are a precious vessel.
16 Take away the garment of him that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from him for strangers.
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