Catholic Public Domain Version
"Do not love sleep, lest deprivation oppress you. Open your eyes and be satisfied with bread. "
— Proverbs 20:13, Catholic Public Domain Version
“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. ”
“Don't love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.”
“Do not love sleep, lest you become impoverished; open your eyes so that you might be satisfied with food.”
“Love not sleep, lest poverty oppress thee: open thy eyes, and be filled with bread.”
“Do not be a lover of sleep, or you will become poor: keep your eyes open, and you will have bread enough.”
“Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.”
Diverse weights, diverse measures: both are abominable with God.
A child may be understood by his interests: whether his works may be clean and upright.
The hearing ear and the seeing eye: the Lord has made them both.
Do not love sleep, lest deprivation oppress you. Open your eyes and be satisfied with bread.
“It is bad, it is bad,” says every buyer; and when he has withdrawn, then he will boast.
There is gold, and there are a multitude of jewels. But lips of knowledge are a precious vessel.
Take away the vestments of him who stands up to vouch for a stranger, and take a pledge from him instead of from outsiders.