Proverbs 6:4 “Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.”

Proverbs 6:4

Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.

World English Bible

Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.

American Standard Version

Give not sleep to thine eyes, Nor slumber to thine eyelids;

Geneva Bible 1599

Giue no sleepe to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.

Darby Translation

Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids:

Young's Literal Translation

Give not sleep to thine eyes, And slumber to thine eyelids,

Bible in Basic English

Give no sleep to your eyes, or rest to them;

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Cross references

“Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.”

Psalm 132:4 Ecclesiastes 9:10 Proverbs 6:10 Proverbs 6:11 Matthew 24:17 Matthew 24:18

Psalm 132:4 · BSB

I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids,

Ecclesiastes 9:10 · BSB

Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.

Proverbs 6:10 · BSB

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,

Proverbs 6:11 · BSB

and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and need like a bandit.

Matthew 24:17 · BSB

Let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve anything from his house.

Matthew 24:18 · BSB

And let no one in the field return for his cloak.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3then do this, my son, to free yourself, for you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands: Go, humble yourself, and press your plea with your neighbor.

5Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

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