Proverbs 20:13 (BSB)

Do not love sleep, or you will grow poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of food.

From Proverbs 20. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 20:13

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 20:13: Note, 1. Those that indulge themselves in their ease may expect to want necessaries, which should have been gotten by honest labour. "Therefore, though thou must sleep (nature requires it), yet love not sleep, as those do that hate business. Love not sleep for its own sake, but only as it fits for further work.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 20:13: 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; 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...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 20:13: Activity and diligence contrasted with sloth (Pro 6:9; Pro 10:11). lest . . . poverty--literally, "be deprived of inheritance."
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 20:13: Pro 20:13 13 Love not sleep, lest thou become poor; Open thine eyes, and have enough to eat. What is comprehended in the first line here is presented in detail in Pro 6:9-11. The fut. Niph. of רוּשׁ, to become poor (cf.