New Revised Standard Version
Do not love sleep, or else you will come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.

Contemporary English Version
If you sleep all the time, you will starve; if you get up and work, you will have enough food.

New American Bible
Do not love sleep lest you be reduced to poverty; keep your eyes open, have your fill of food.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Love not sleep, lest poverty oppress thee: open thy eyes, and be filled with bread.

Love not sleep, lest poverty oppress thee: open thy eyes, and be filled with bread.

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Proverbs 6:9-11 Thou wilt sleep a little, thou wilt slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little to sleep: . . .

Proverbs 10:4 He that gathereth in the harvest, is a wise son: but he that snorteth in the summer, is the son of confusion.

Proverbs 12:11 He that is delighted in passing his time over wine, leaveth a reproach in his strong holds.

Proverbs 13:4 The sluggard willeth, and willeth not: but the soul of them that work, shall be made fat.

Proverbs 19:15 Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Proverbs 24:30-34 I passed by the field of the slothful man, and by the vineyard of the foolish man: . . .

Romans 12:11 In carefulness not slothful. In spirit fervent. Serving the Lord.

2 Thessalonians 3:10 For also, when we were with you, this we declared to you: that, if any man will not work, neither let him eat.

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John 1:6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

Romans 13:11 And that, knowing the season, that it is now the hour for us to rise from sleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.

1 Corinthians 15:34 Awake, ye just, and sin not. For some have not the knowledge of God. I speak it to your shame.

Ephesians 5:14 Wherefore he saith: Rise, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead: and Christ shall enlighten thee.