Bible verse
Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of food.
Proverbs 20:13 · BSB
The verses around it, from Proverbs 20.
9 Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure; I am cleansed from my sin”?
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.
17 Food gained by fraud is sweet to a man, but later his mouth is full of gravel.
KJV
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, [and] thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
ASV
Love not sleep, let thou come to poverty; Open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
ERV
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
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