“Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Proverbs 20 contains 30 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.