Proverbs 20:13

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. LOVE NOT SLEEP. To sleep is a matter of necessity; to love sleep is the mark of indolence. OPEN THINE EYES. God has given the eye not to be always closed, but, after necessary repose, to be opened to see and watch ()....

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 certain measure of it restores and invigorates exhausted nature; more than _that_ oppresses and destroys life. A lover of sleep is a paltry, insignificant character....

OPEN THINE EYES - Be vigilant and active. That is the secret of prosperity....

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 inebriated persons scoff at what is holy, reject reproof, ridicule all that is serious. Septuagint, Ἀκόλαστον οἶνος, "Wine is an undisciplined thing;" Vulgate, _Luxuriosa res, vinum. _STRONG DRINK IS RAGING; a brawler, Revised Version. _Shekar, _σίκερα (Luke 1:15), is most frequently employed of any intoxicating drink not made from grapes, _e.g. _palm wine, mead, etc. The inordinate use of this renders men noisy and boisterous, no longer masters of themselves or restrained by the laws of morality or decency. Septu

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 sweet to a man, and what he should be thankful for; yet should not indulge himself in to the neglect of the proper business of life; nor to be used but at the proper time for it; for the eye is made for sight, and not for sleep only, as Aben Ezra observes, connecting the words with the preceding; and therefore should not be kept shut and inattentive to business, which must necessarily end in poverty and want; see Proverbs 6:9; and so spiritual sleep and slothfulness bring on a spiritual poverty in the souls of men, both as to the exercise of grace and the performance of duty; OPEN THINE EYES, [AND] THOU SHALL BE SATISFIED WITH BREAD; that is, open thine eyes from sleep, awake and

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. The first one is concerning wine and strong drink. As the use of wine among the people of Israel was legitimate the warning is against intemperance Deuteronomy 14:26). The Bible gives many illustrations of the truth of this proverb-warning. We may think of Noah, Lot, Nabal, Ben-hadad, Belshazzar and others. From all the good things we select the following. In Proverbs 20:3 is instruction which makes for peace. It is the fool who meddles and thus produces strife, but it is an honor for man to cease from strife. In...

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. PROVERBS 20:6 A. RV is strained and the Heb. is difficult. Read (_cf._ Syr. and Lat.) Many a man is called kind. Proverbs 20:8. winnoweth (_mg._) is more literal than RV, and conveys better the idea of personal scrutiny (_cf._ the ideal king in Psalms 72 and Isaiah 11). Proverbs 20:9. For the growi

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 both of them. 13. Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; Open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread. 14. It is bad, it is bad, saith the buyer; But when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. 15. There is gold, and abundance of rubies; But the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel. 16. Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; And hold him in pledge that is surety for foreigners. 17. Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man; But afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel. 18. Every purpose is established by counsel; And by wi