SEV Biblia, Chapter 20:13
¶ No ames el sueño, para que no te empobrezcas; abre tus ojos, y te saciarás de pan.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Proverbs 20:13
Verse 13. Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty ] Sleep, indescribable in its nature, is an indescribable blessing; but how often is it turned into a curse! It is like food; a certain measure of it restores and invigorates exhausted nature; more than that oppresses and destroys life. A lover of sleep is a paltry, insignificant character.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 13. Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty , etc.] 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 sweet to a man, and what he should be thankful for; yet should not indulge himself in to the neglect of the proper business of life; nor to be used but at the proper time for it; for the eye is made for sight, and not for sleep only, as Aben Ezra observes, connecting the words with the preceding; and therefore should not be kept shut and inattentive to business, which must necessarily end in poverty and want; (see Proverbs 6:9-11); and so spiritual sleep and slothfulness bring on a spiritual poverty in the souls of men, both as to the exercise of grace and the performance of duty; open thine eyes, [and] thou shall be satisfied with bread ; that is, open thine eyes from sleep, awake and keep so, and be sedulous and industrious in the business of thy calling; so shalt thou have a sufficiency of food for thyself and family; (see Proverbs 12:11). It may be applied to awaking out of sleep in a spiritual sense, and to a diligent attendance to duty and the use of means, whereby the souls of men come to be satisfied with the goodness of the Lord, and the fatness of his house; (see Ephesians 5:14 Psalm 65:4).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 13 - Those that indulge themselves, may expect to want necessaries, whic should have been gotten by honest labour.
Original Hebrew
אל 408 תאהב 157 שׁנה 8142 פן 6435 תורשׁ 3423 פקח 6491 עיניך 5869 שׂבע 7646 לחם׃ 3899
