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Proverbs 20:13
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Proverbs 20:13
13Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
13*Loue not sleepe, lest thou come to pouertie: open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
- Chap. 19.15. and 12.11.
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Proverbs 20:13
Affection, goodwill, devoted regard, or charity; as a verb, to regard with such affection or goodwill.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To rest in natural sleep; by figure, to be inactive or dead and at rest.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
That not; for fear that.
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A state of being poor: want, indigence, or scarcity of material means.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Unclosed, uncovered, or manifest; as a verb, to uncover, reveal, or explain.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The organs of sight; by extension, sight, attention, judgment, or presence, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE)
To satisfy: to fill, content, supply sufficiently, or meet what is required.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study15Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
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Open the full verse study11Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
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Open the full verse study4He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
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Open the full verse study11He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.
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Open the full verse study11And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
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Open the full verse study10For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
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Open the full verse study14Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
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Open the full verse study6So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
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Open the full verse study4The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
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Open the full verse study9How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
10Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
11So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
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Open the full verse study30I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
31And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
32Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction.
33Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
34So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
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Open the full verse study34Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
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