Proverbs 20:13

Proverbs 20:13 in 10 English translations. Each links through to the full chapter for context.

New International Version (NIV)

13Do not love sleep or you will grow poor;

stay awake and you will have food to spare.

13Do not love sleep, or you will become poor;

Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with food.

13Do not love [excessive] sleep, or you will become poor;

Open your eyes [so that you can do your work] and you will be satisfied with bread.

13Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor;

open your eyes, and you will have plenty of food.

13Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty;

Open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

13Loue not sleepe least thou come vnto pouertie: open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

13Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty.

Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

13Don’t love sleep, or you will become poor.

Stay awake, and you will have more food than you need.

13If you love to sleep too much, you will become poor.

Keep awake so that you have food on the table!

13Do not love sleep, lest you become poor, || Open your eyes—be satisfied [with] bread.