Proverbs 6:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.”
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Read Proverbs 6:4 in the flow of Proverbs6 for its full sense, then follow the cross-references below to the passages that echo it. Open Proverbs6 to see the surrounding context.
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BSBPD
“Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Give not sleep to thine eyes, Nor slumber to thine eyelids;”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Give not sleep to thine eyes, And slumber to thine eyelids,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Proverbs 6:4 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 55:7How far away I would flee! In the wilderness I would remain. Selah
- Psalms 132:4I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids,
- Proverbs 6:10A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
- Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever 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.
- Matthew 24:17Let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve anything from his house.
- Mark 13:35Therefore 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.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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