Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; Open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
WEB
Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of food.
YLT
Love not sleep, lest thou become poor, Open thine eyes--be satisfied with bread.
DBT
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, [and] thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentProverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.
- Author
- Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
- Date
- Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.