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Bishop's Bible
Proverbs 6:4
Let not thyne eyes sleepe, nor thyne eye liddes slumber.
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Christian Standard Bible®
Don’t give sleep to your eyesor slumber to your eyelids.
Don’t give sleep to your eyesor slumber to your eyelids.
Hebrew Names Version
Give no sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids.
Give no sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids.
King James Version
Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
English Standard Version
Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber;
Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber;
New Century Version
Don't go to sleep or even rest your eyes,
Don't go to sleep or even rest your eyes,
New English Translation
Permit no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.
Permit no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.
Amplified Bible
Give no [unnecessary] sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids;
Give no [unnecessary] sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids;
New American Standard Bible
Give no sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids;
Give no sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids;
World English Bible
Give no sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids.
Give no sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Giue no sleepe to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
Giue no sleepe to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
Legacy Standard Bible
Give no sleep to your eyes,Nor slumber to your eyelids;
Give no sleep to your eyes,Nor slumber to your eyelids;
Berean Standard Bible
Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.
Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.
Contemporary English Version
Do this before you fall asleep or even get sleepy.
Do this before you fall asleep or even get sleepy.
Complete Jewish Bible
give your eyes no sleep, give your eyelids no rest;
give your eyes no sleep, give your eyelids no rest;
Darby Translation
Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids:
Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids:
Easy-to-Read Version
Don't wait to rest or sleep.
Don't wait to rest or sleep.
George Lamsa Translation
You shall not give sleep to your eyes nor slumber to your eyelids.
You shall not give sleep to your eyes nor slumber to your eyelids.
Good News Translation
Lexham English Bible
Do not give sleep to your eyes, or slumber to your eyelids.
Do not give sleep to your eyes, or slumber to your eyelids.
Literal Translation
Do not give sleep to your eyes, or slumber to your eyelids.
Do not give sleep to your eyes, or slumber to your eyelids.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
let not thyne eyes slepe, ner thine eye lyddes slomber.
let not thyne eyes slepe, ner thine eye lyddes slomber.
American Standard Version
Give not sleep to thine eyes, Nor slumber to thine eyelids;
Give not sleep to thine eyes, Nor slumber to thine eyelids;
Bible in Basic English
Give no sleep to your eyes, or rest to them;
Give no sleep to your eyes, or rest to them;
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
King James Version (1611)
Giue not sleepe to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
Giue not sleepe to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber with thine eyelids;
Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber with thine eyelids;
English Revised Version
Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
yyue thou not sleep to thin iyen, nether thin iyeliddis nappe.
yyue thou not sleep to thin iyen, nether thin iyeliddis nappe.
Update Bible Version
Don't give sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids;
Don't give sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids;
Webster's Bible Translation
Give not sleep to thy eyes, nor slumber to thy eyelids.
Give not sleep to thy eyes, nor slumber to thy eyelids.
New King James Version
Give no sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids.
Give no sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids.
New Living Translation
Don't put it off; do it now! Don't rest until you do.
Don't put it off; do it now! Don't rest until you do.
New Life Bible
Do not let your eyes sleep. Do not let your eyes close.
Do not let your eyes sleep. Do not let your eyes close.
New Revised Standard
Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber;
Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Do not give sleep to thine eyes, or slumber to thine eyelashes;
Do not give sleep to thine eyes, or slumber to thine eyelashes;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Give not sleep to thy eyes, neither let thy eyelids slumber.
Give not sleep to thy eyes, neither let thy eyelids slumber.
Revised Standard Version
Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber;
Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber;
Young's Literal Translation
Give not sleep to thine eyes, And slumber to thine eyelids,
Give not sleep to thine eyes, And slumber to thine eyelids,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Give no sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids;
Give no sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids;
Contextual Overview
1 My sonne if thou be suretie for thy neyghbour, and hast fastened thyne hande for another man: 2 Thou art bounde with thine owne wordes, and taken with thine owne speach. 3 Therfore my sonne do this, and thou shalt be discharged: When thou art come into thy neyghbours daunger, go thy wayes then soone, humble thy selfe, and with thy frendes intreate [thy creditour.] 4 Let not thyne eyes sleepe, nor thyne eye liddes slumber. 5 Saue thy self as a Doe from the hand of the [hunter] and as a byrde from the hande of the fouler.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Proverbs 6:10, Proverbs 6:11, Psalms 132:4, Ecclesiastes 9:10, Matthew 24:17, Matthew 24:18, Mark 13:35, Mark 13:36
Reciprocal: Genesis 19:15 - hastened 1 Samuel 20:38 - General 1 Samuel 25:18 - made haste 2 Samuel 17:16 - but speedily 2 Samuel 19:16 - hasted Psalms 55:7 - General Proverbs 24:33 - General Isaiah 56:10 - loving Jeremiah 48:6 - Flee Mark 13:15 - General Luke 22:46 - Why sleep ye John 5:4 - first Acts 24:25 - when
Cross-References
Genesis 6:15
And of this fashion shalt thou make it: The length of the arke [shalbe] three hundreth cubites, the breadth of it fiftie cubites, & the height of it thirtie cubites.
And of this fashion shalt thou make it: The length of the arke [shalbe] three hundreth cubites, the breadth of it fiftie cubites, & the height of it thirtie cubites.
Genesis 6:20
Of fethered foules also after their kinde, and of all cattell after their kinde: of euery worme of the earth after his kynde, two of euery one shall come vnto thee, to kepe [them] alyue.
Of fethered foules also after their kinde, and of all cattell after their kinde: of euery worme of the earth after his kynde, two of euery one shall come vnto thee, to kepe [them] alyue.
Genesis 6:21
And take thou with thee of all meate that is eaten, and thou shalt lay it vp with thee, that it may be meate for thee and them.
And take thou with thee of all meate that is eaten, and thou shalt lay it vp with thee, that it may be meate for thee and them.
Genesis 6:22
Noah therfore dyd according vnto all that God commaunded hym [euen] so dyd he.
Noah therfore dyd according vnto all that God commaunded hym [euen] so dyd he.
Genesis 11:4
And they sayd: Go to, let vs buylde vs a citie and a towre, whose toppe may reache vnto heauen, and let vs make vs a name, lest peraduenture we be scattered abrode into the vpper face of the whole earth.
And they sayd: Go to, let vs buylde vs a citie and a towre, whose toppe may reache vnto heauen, and let vs make vs a name, lest peraduenture we be scattered abrode into the vpper face of the whole earth.
Numbers 13:33
And there we sawe also giauntes the chyldren of Anac [whiche come] of the giauntes: And we seemed in our sight as it were grashoppers, and so we dyd in their sight.
And there we sawe also giauntes the chyldren of Anac [whiche come] of the giauntes: And we seemed in our sight as it were grashoppers, and so we dyd in their sight.
Numbers 16:2
And they rose vp before Moyses, with certayne of the children of Israel, two hundred & fiftie, which were captaynes of the multitude, famous in the congregation, and men of renoune.
And they rose vp before Moyses, with certayne of the children of Israel, two hundred & fiftie, which were captaynes of the multitude, famous in the congregation, and men of renoune.
Deuteronomy 3:11
For only Og kyng of Basan, remayned of the remnaunt of the giauntes, whose bed was a bed of iron: And is it not yet at Rabbath among ye children of Ammon? Nine cubites doth the length therof contayne, and foure cubites the breadth of it, after the cubite of a man.
For only Og kyng of Basan, remayned of the remnaunt of the giauntes, whose bed was a bed of iron: And is it not yet at Rabbath among ye children of Ammon? Nine cubites doth the length therof contayne, and foure cubites the breadth of it, after the cubite of a man.
1 Samuel 17:4
And there came a man betweene the both, out of the tentes of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath: sixe cubites and a handbreadth long:
And there came a man betweene the both, out of the tentes of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath: sixe cubites and a handbreadth long:
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids. Until the above things are done; which denotes of what consequence and importance they are; and that persons in such circumstances should not be careless, dilatory, and unconcerned; but should use great diligence, and leave no stone unturned, or method untried, to extricate themselves; see Psalms 132:4.
