Proverbs 20:13 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread. ”

Proverbs 20:13 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Open thine eyes - Be vigilant and active. That is the secret of prosperity.
Proverbs 20:13 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 thou...
Proverbs 20:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

come to poverty . become dispossessed. Hebrew. yarash. See note on Proverbs 6:11 .
Proverbs 20:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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 - Sleep, indescribable in its nature, is an indescribab...
Proverbs 20:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
Proverbs 20:13 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1. Raging] RV 'a brawler.' Is deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man sneer, quarrel and reel about.
Proverbs 20:13 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Open thine eyes. — Be up and stirring.
Proverbs 20:13 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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 glimps...
Proverbs 20:13 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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 moc...
Proverbs 20:13 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 d...
Proverbs 20:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 i...
Proverbs 20:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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...
Proverbs 20:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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...
Proverbs 20:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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....
Proverbs 20:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

13 Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread. Note, 1. Those that indulge themselves in their ease may expect to want neces...
Proverbs 20:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 t...
Proverbs 20:13 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 us...
Proverbs 20:13 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 19:1-2 . Cyrus, afte...
Proverbs 20:13 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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 infl...
Proverbs 20:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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 shal...
Proverbs 20:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 24:30-34 ; Proverbs 6:9-11 ; Romans 12:...
Proverbs 20:13 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Open — Shake off sloth and betake thyself to thy employment with diligence and vigour.

Proverbs 20:13 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Proverbs 20:13 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 20:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Proverbs 20:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Proverbs 20:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 20:13 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 20:13 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Proverbs 20:13 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Proverbs 20:13 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Proverbs 20:13 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Proverbs 20:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Proverbs 20:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Proverbs 20:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Proverbs 20:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 20:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Proverbs 20:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Proverbs 20:13 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Proverbs 20:13 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 20:13 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Proverbs 20:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Proverbs 20:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 20:13 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes