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Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

Proverbs 20:13 · WEB

This verse in other languages

ગુજરાતીનીતિવચનો ૨૦:૧૩
ઊંઘ સાથે પ્રીત કરીશ નહિ, રખેને તું દરિદ્રાવસ્થામાં આવી પડે; તારી આંખો ઉઘાડ એટલે તું અન્નથી તૃપ્ત થશે.
हिन्दीनीतिवचन २०:१३
नींद से प्रीति न रख, नहीं तो दरिद्र हो जाएगा; आँखें खोल तब तू रोटी से तृप्त होगा।

In context

11Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.

12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD has made even both of them.

13Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

14“It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.

15There is gold and abundance of rubies, but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.

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