Proverbs 20:13
What meaning of the proverbs 20:13 in the Bible?
What does Proverbs 20:13 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread."
What does Proverbs 20:13 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread."
Verse Proverbs 20:13. _LOVE NOT SLEEP, LEST THOU COME TO POVERTY_] Sleep, indescribable in its nature, is an indescribable _blessing_; but how often is it turned into a _curse_! It is like _food_; a c...
OPEN THINE EYES - Be vigilant and active. That is the secret of prosperity....
CHAPTER 20 PROVERBS AS TO PERSONAL CONDUCT Proverbs of warning and instructions as to personal conduct are found mostly in this chapter; a number of them are of special interest if applied to Solomon...
PROVERBS 20. We have still further traces in Proverbs 20:9; Proverbs 20:24 of the sceptical spirit and the obstinate questionings of self characteristic of the later Greek period of Jewish thought....
COME TO POVERTY. become dispossessed. Hebrew. _yarash._ See note on Proverbs 6:11....
Comp. Proverbs 6:9-11; Proverbs 19:15....
TEXT Proverbs 20:11-20 11. Even a child maketh himself known by his doings, Whether his work be pure, and whether it be right. 12. The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Jehovah hath made even bot...
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread. Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread....
1. RAGING] RV 'a brawler.' IS deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man sneer, quarrel and reel about....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 20 V1 Wine is like a man who insults you. Beer is like a man who shouts at you. If wine and beer tempt you, then you are not wise. V2 An angr...
OPEN THINE EYES. — Be up and stirring....
אַל ־תֶּֽאֱהַ֣ב שֵׁ֭נָה פֶּן ־תִּוָּרֵ֑שׁ פְּקַ֖ח עֵינֶ֣יךָ שְֽׂבַֽע ־לָֽחֶם׃...
CHAPTER 21 IDLENESS "After the autumn gathering the slothful does not plough; he asks in the harvest, and there is nothing."- Proverbs 20:4 WE have already in the sixth lecture caught a glimpse of t...
SOBRIETY; INDUSTRY; HONESTY Proverbs 20:1-15 Strong drink is the greatest of all foes to human happiness. It gains an influence over men by fair promises, but when once it is entrenched, it mocks at...
Verse Proverbs 20:9. This is the eternal challenge which has but one answer. When a man recognizes this he begins to inquire for a Saviour. Verse Proverbs 20:14. "It is bad, it is bad," is the descri...
_Sleep. Septuagint, "back-biting, that thou mayst not be taken off." (Haydock)_...
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread. It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. There is...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be follow...
LOVE NOT SLEEP, LEST THOU COME TO POVERTY,.... Sleep is a very great natural blessing; it is a gift of God, what nature requires, and is desirable; it is to be loved, though not immoderately; it is sw...
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, [and] thou shalt be satisfied with bread. Ver. 13. _Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty._] In sleep there is no use either of sight o...
_Love not sleep_ That is, immoderate sleep, nor sloth, or idleness. Take sleep because necessity requires it, not from any love to it; _lest thou come to poverty_ Lest thou reduce thyself to beggary....
V. 13. LOVE NOT SLEEP, that associated with slothfulness, LEST THOU COME TO POVERTY, that being the result of sloth; OPEN THINE EYES, with the proper energy, industry, and vigor, AND THOU SHALT BE SAT...
LOVE NOT SLEEP, i.e. immoderate sleep, or sloth, or idleness. Take sleep because necessity requires it, not from any love to it. OPEN THINE EYES; awake out of sleep, shake off sloth, and betake thysel...
Proverbs 20:13 love H157 (H8799) sleep H8142 poverty H3423 (H8735) Open H6491 (H8798) eyes H5869 satisfied H7646 (H8798) bread H3899 Love - Proverbs 6:9-11, Proverbs 10:4, Proverbs 12:11,...
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions regarding the ways of folly. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Here in this imperfect state, no person can claim to be sinless, but the just man, walking by the rule o...
Proverbs 20:1. _Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging._ In the book of Ecclesiasticus intoxication is connected with poverty, with harlots, with destruction: chap. Proverbs 19:1. Cyrus, after notic...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 20:13 These proverbs all relate to wealth. Laziness leads to POVERTY (v. Proverbs 20:13). People will set a value on something as it suits them (v. Proverbs 20:14). Wisdom is...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 20:6. Miller reads the first clause of this verse, “_Much of the mere man one calls his goodness_,” _i.e._, “Much that is merely human.” He allows, however, that the usual r...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 20:1 WINE IS A MOCKER; or, scorner, the word (_luts_) being taken up from the last chapter. The liquor is, as it were, personified, as doing what men do under its influence. Thus...
Into chapter 20. Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise (Proverbs 20:1). He will have more to say about wine as we move along in our study next week,...
1 Corinthians 15:34; 2 Thessalonians 3:10; Ephesians 5:14; Jonah 1:6; Proverbs 10:4; Proverbs 12:11; Proverbs 13:4; Proverbs 19:15; Proverbs 24:30;...
Open — Shake off sloth and betake thyself to thy employment with diligence and vigour....