A Father’s Instruction
Proverbs 4:16
In 11 translations
- BSB
- For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.
- KJV
- For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
- WEB
- For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
- ASV
- For they sleep not, except they do evil; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
- LSV
- For they do not sleep if they do no evil, || And their sleep has been taken away violently, || If they do not cause [some] to stumble.
- YLT
- For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not [some] to stumble.
- DBY
- For they sleep not except they have done mischief, and their sleep is taken away unless they have caused [some] to fall.
- DRC
- For they sleep not except they have done evil: and their sleep is taken away unless they have made some to fall.
- GNV
- For they can not sleepe, except they haue done euill, and their sleepe departeth except they cause some to fall.
- JPS
- For they sleep not, except they have done evil; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
- LXXE
- For they cannot sleep, unless they have done evil: their sleep is taken away, and they rest not.
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Where the editions differ
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- Written (Ketiv): יִכְשׁוֹלוּ׃ (“they stumble”). Read aloud (Qere): יַכְשִֽׁילוּ׃ (“they bring injury”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- Leningrad Codex reads יַכְשִֽׁולוּ׃; read aloud (Qere) reads יַכְשִֽׁילוּ׃ (“they bring injury”).
Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- כִּ֤י לֹ֣א יִֽ֭שְׁנוּ אִם־לֹ֣א יָרֵ֑עוּ וְֽנִגְזְלָ֥ה שְׁ֝נָתָ֗ם אִם־לֹ֥א יכשולו׃Read aloud as (qere): יַכְשִֽׁילוּ
- LXX-Br
- Οὐ γὰρ μὴ ὑπνώσωσιν, ἐὰν μὴ κακοποιήσωσιν· ἀφῄρηται ὁ ὕπνος αὐτῶν, καὶ οὐ κοιμῶνται.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Psalms 36:4Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.
- Micah 2:1Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
- Isaiah 57:20But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea, for it cannot be still, and its waves churn up mire and muck.
- 2 Peter 2:14Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.
- Proverbs 1:16For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.
- Luke 22:66At daybreak the council of the elders of the people, both the chief priests and scribes, met together. They led Jesus into their Sanhedrin and said,
- John 18:28Then they led Jesus away from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. By now it was early morning, and the Jews did not enter the Praetorium, to avoid being defiled and unable to eat the Passover.
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).