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 or hearing, or any other sense. And as little is there of the spiritual senses in the sleep of sin. It fared with the good prophet Zec 4:1 as with a drowsy person, who though awake and set to work, yet was ready to sleep at it; and Peter, James, and John, if the spirit hold not up their eyes, may be in danger to fall asleep at their prayers, Mat 26:37-45 and so fall into spiritual poverty: for if prayer stands still, the whole trade of godliness stands still. And a powerless prayer, proceeding from a spirit of sloth, joined with presumption, makes the best men liable to punishment for profaning God's name, so that he may justly let them fall into some sin, which shall awaken them with smart enough. Pro 19:15 See Trapp on " Pro 19:15 "