Proverbs 6:4
2 if you have been trapped by the words of your lips, ensnared by the words of your mouth,
3 then 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.
Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.
5 Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
6 Walk in the manner of the ant, O slacker; observe its ways and become wise.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.
- KJV
- Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
- WEB
- Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.
- ASV
- Give not sleep to thine eyes, Nor slumber to thine eyelids;
- DARBY
- Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids:
- BLB
- You should not give sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids—
- ÅB
- unn ikke dine øyne søvn og dine øyelokk blund,
- OTB
- Tillat ikke søvn til dine øyne, eller slummer til dine øyelokk;
- B1930
- unn ikke dine øine søvn og dine øielokk blund,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 132:4
I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids,
Read in contextProverbs 6:10–11
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
Read in contextMark 13:35–36
Therefore keep watch, because you do not know when the master of the house will return—whether in the evening, at midnight, when the rooster crows, or in the morning.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 9:10
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.
Read in contextMatthew 24:17–18
Let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve anything from his house.
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