PRO 20:13 Parallel View

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ULT Do not love sleep lest you become impoverished;
 ⇔ open your eyes, be satisfied with bread.

UST If you sleep a lot, you will become poor;
⇔ but if you stay awake and work, you will have plenty of food.

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

OEB Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty;
⇔ open your eyes, that your bread may be plentiful.

WEB Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty.
⇔ Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

NET Do not love sleep, lest you become impoverished;
 ⇔ open your eyes so that you might be satisfied with food.

LSV Do not love sleep, lest you become poor,
Open your eyes—be satisfied [with] bread.

FBV If you love sleeping you'll become poor. Wake up and get busy, and you'll have plenty to eat.

T4T  ⇔ If you want to sleep all the time, you will become poor;
⇔ if you stay awake and work, you will have plenty of food.

LEB • open your eyes and have plenty bread.

BBE Do not be a lover of sleep, or you will become poor: keep your eyes open, and you will have bread enough.

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JPS Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt have bread in plenty.

ASV Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty;
 ⇔ Open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

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

YLT Love not sleep, lest thou become poor, Open thine eyes — be satisfied [with] bread.

DBY Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, [and] thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

RV Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

WBS Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thy eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

KJB Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
(Love not sleep, lest thou/you come to poverty; open thine/your eyes, and thou/you shalt be satisfied with bread. )

BB Loue not sleepe, lest thou come vnto pouertie: but open thyne eyes, that thou mayest haue bread inough.
(Loue not sleep, lest thou/you come unto pouertie: but open thine/your eyes, that thou/you mayest/may have bread enough.)

GNV Loue not sleepe least thou come vnto pouertie: open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
(Loue not sleep least thou/you come unto pouertie: open thine/your eyes, and thou/you shalt be satisfied with bread. )

CB Delyte not thou in slepe, lest thou come vnto pouerte: but ope thine eyes, & thou shalt haue bred ynough.
(Delyte not thou/you in sleep, lest thou/you come unto pouerte: but ope thine/your eyes, and thou/you shalt have bred enough.)

WYC Nyle thou loue sleep, lest nedynesse oppresse thee; opene thin iyen, and be thou fillid with looues.
(Nyle thou/you love sleep, lest nedynesse oppress thee; opene thin eyes, and be thou/you filled with loaves.)

LUT Liebe den Schlaf nicht, daß du nicht arm werdest; laß deine Augen wacker sein, so wirst du Brots genug haben.
(love the Schlaf not, that you not arm becomest; laß your Augen wacker sein, so wirst you Brots enough have.)

CLV Noli diligere somnum, ne te egestas opprimat: aperi oculos tuos, et saturare panibus.
(Noli diligere somnum, ne you(sg) egestas opprimat: aperi oculos tuos, and saturare panibus. )

BRN Love not to speak ill, lest thou be cut off: open thine eyes, and be filled with bread.

BrLXX Μὴ ἀγάπα καταλαλεῖν, ἵνα μὴ ἐξαρθῇς· διάνοιξον τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς σου, καὶ ἐμπλήσθητι ἄρτων.
(Maʸ agapa katalalein, hina maʸ exarthaʸs; dianoixon tous ofthalmous sou, kai emplaʸsthaʸti artōn. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

אַל־תֶּֽאֱהַ֣ב שֵׁ֭נָה

not love sleep

The phraselove sleep means to sleep a lot because one loves to sleep. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “Do not sleep a lot”

Note 2 topic: grammar-connect-logic-contrast

פְּקַ֖ח עֵינֶ֣י⁠ךָ שְֽׂבַֽע־לָֽחֶם

open eyes,your have_plenty_of bread

The idea of this clause is in contrast with the idea of the previous clause. Use the most natural way in your language to indicate a contrast. Alternate translation: “instead, open your eyes, be satisfied with bread”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

פְּקַ֖ח עֵינֶ֣י⁠ךָ

open eyes,your

Here, Solomon says open your eyes to refer to staying awake. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “remain awake”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

פְּקַ֖ח עֵינֶ֣י⁠ךָ

open eyes,your

Here, Solomon implies that the person who opens his eyes does so in order to work. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state this explicitly. Alternate translation: “open your eyes to do your work”

Note 5 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result

שְֽׂבַֽע־לָֽחֶם

have_plenty_of bread

This phrase states the result of obeying the command to open your eyes in the previous phrase. Use the most natural way in your language to indicate result. Alternate translation: “so that you will be satisfied with bread”

Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche

לָֽחֶם

bread

Here, bread is used to refer to food in general. See how you translated the same use of bread in 9:5.

Parallel PRO 20:13