Proverbs 20:13

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 12:11; Romans 13:11

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 20:13

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Open thine eyes - Be vigilant and active. That is the secret of prosperity.
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 chara...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

come to poverty . become dispossessed. Hebrew. yarash. See note on Proverbs 6:11 .
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 - Sle...
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;...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1. Raging] RV 'a brawler.' Is deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man sneer, quarrel and reel about.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Open thine eyes ] i.e. Wake up!
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Open thine eyes. — Be up and stirring.
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...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER 17 A JUST BALANCE "A just balance and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are His work."- Proverbs 16:11 "A false balan...
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 fai...
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...
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...
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;...
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 p...
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 com...
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...
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;...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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

¹³ Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 20:13

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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