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Proverbs 20:13

NETBible	Do not love sleep,¹ lest you become impoverished; open your eyes so that² you might be satisfied with food.³
NIV © biblegateway Pro 20:13	Do not love sleep or you will grow poor; stay awake and you will have food to spare.
NASB © biblegateway Pro 20:13	Do not love sleep, or you will become poor; Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with food.
NLT © biblegateway Pro 20:13	If you love sleep, you will end in poverty. Keep your eyes open, and there will be plenty to eat!
MSG © biblegateway Pro 20:13	Don't be too fond of sleep; you'll end up in the poorhouse. Wake up and get up; then there'll be food on the table.
BBE © SABDAweb Pro 20:13	Do not be a lover of sleep, or you will become poor: keep your eyes open, and you will have bread enough.
NRSV © bibleoremus Pro 20:13	Do not love sleep, or else you will come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.
NKJV © biblegateway Pro 20:13	Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty; Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with bread.
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KJV	Love <0157> (8799) not sleep <08142>_, lest thou come to poverty <03423> (8735)_; open <06491> (8798) thine eyes <05869>_, [and] thou shalt be satisfied <07646> (8798) with bread <03899>_.
NASB © biblegateway Pro 20:13	Do not love <0157> sleep <08142> , or <06435> you will become <03423> poor <03423> ; Open <06491> your eyes <05869> , and you will be satisfied <07646> with food <03899> .
LXXM	mh <3165> ADV agapa <25> V-PAD-2S katalalein <2635> V-PAN ina <2443> CONJ mh <3165> ADV exaryhv <1808> V-APS-2S dianoixon <1272> V-AAD-2S touv <3588> T-APM ofyalmouv <3788> N-APM sou <4771> P-GS kai <2532> CONJ emplhsyhti {V-APD-2S} artwn <740> N-GPM
NET [draft] ITL	Do not <0408> love <0157> sleep <08142> , lest <06435> you become impoverished <03423> ; open <06491> your eyes <05869> so that you might be satisfied <07646> with food <03899> .
HEBREW	Mxl <03899> ebv <07646> Kynye <05869> xqp <06491> srwt <03423> Np <06435> hns <08142> bhat <0157> la (20:13) <0408>

NETBible

Do not love sleep,¹ lest you become impoverished; open your eyes so that² you might be satisfied with food.³

NET Notes

¹sn 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.”

²tn 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.”

³tn Heb “bread” (so KJV, ASV, NRSV), although the term often serves in a generic sense for food in general.