Proverbs 6:4

In 11 translations

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;

LSV

Do not give sleep to your eyes, || And slumber to your eyelids,

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

Give not sleep to thy eyes, neither let thy eyelids slumber.

GNV

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

JPS

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

LXXE

Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber with thine eyelids;

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Original-language editions

WLC

אַל־תִּתֵּ֣ן שֵׁנָ֣ה לְעֵינֶ֑יךָ וּ֝תְנוּמָ֗ה לְעַפְעַפֶּֽיךָ׃

LXX-Br

Μὴ δῷς ὕπνον σοῖς ὄμμασι, μηδὲ ἐπινυστάξῃς σοῖς βλεφάροις,

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Cross-references most cited first

• Psalms 132:4I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids,
• Proverbs 6:10–11A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and need like a bandit.
• Mark 13:35–36Therefore 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. Otherwise, he may arrive without notice and find…
• 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 24:17–18Let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve anything from his house. And let no one in the field return for his cloak.

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