Focused Passage

Proverbs 20:13

The LORD Searches the Heart: Sobriety, Justice, Counsel, Speech, and Honest Measures

The chapter moves from appetite and conflict, to hidden purposes and integrity, to royal justice and human impurity, to work and speech, to surety, fraud, counsel, and gossip, to family honor, inheritance, vengeance, and dishonest scales, and finally to providence, vows, royal judgment, the LORD's searching lamp, and painful correction.

Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources

13 Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of food.

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Verse 13

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Do not אַל־ H408 Adverb love תֶּֽאֱהַ֣ב H157 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular sleep שֵׁ֭נָה H8142 Noun - feminine singular or פֶּן־ H6435 Conjunction you will grow poor תִּוָּרֵ֑שׁ H3423 Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular open פְּקַ֖ח H6491 Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular your eyes עֵינֶ֣יךָ H5869 Noun - cdc | second person masculine singular [and] you will have plenty שְֽׂבַֽע־ H7646 Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular of food לָֽחֶם׃ H3899 Noun - masculine singular

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