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New Century Version

Proverbs 6:4

Don't go to sleep or even rest your eyes,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Surety (Guarantee);   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - Indolent Sleep;   Sleep;   Sleep-Wakefulness;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Lending;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Friend, Friendship;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Loan;   Surety;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Israel, History of;   Proverbs, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Loan;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Slumber;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Eyelid;   Surety;   Wisdom;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Contract;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
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.
King James Version
Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
English Standard Version
Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber;
New English Translation
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;
New American Standard Bible
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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
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;
Berean Standard Bible
Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.
Contemporary English Version
Do this before you fall asleep or even get sleepy.
Complete Jewish Bible
give your eyes no sleep, give your eyelids no rest;
Darby Translation
Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids:
Easy-to-Read Version
Don't wait to rest or sleep.
George Lamsa Translation
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.
Literal Translation
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.
American Standard Version
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;
JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Let not thyne eyes sleepe, nor thyne eye liddes slumber.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
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;
Webster's Bible Translation
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.
New Living Translation
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.
New Revised Standard
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;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Give not sleep to thy eyes, neither let thy eyelids slumber.
Revised Standard Version
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,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Give no sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids;

Contextual Overview

1 My child, be careful about giving a guarantee for somebody else's loan, about promising to pay what someone else owes. 2 You might get trapped by what you say; you might be caught by your own words. 3 My child, if you have done this and are under your neighbor's control, here is how to get free. Don't be proud. Go to your neighbor and beg to be free from your promise. 4 Don't go to sleep or even rest your eyes, 5 but free yourself like a deer running from a hunter, like a bird flying away from a trapper.

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
This is how big I want you to build the boat: four hundred fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high.
Genesis 6:20
Two of every kind of bird, animal, and crawling thing will come to you to be kept alive.
Genesis 6:21
Also gather some of every kind of food and store it on the boat as food for you and the animals."
Genesis 6:22
Noah did everything that God commanded him.
Genesis 11:4
Then they said to each other, "Let's build a city and a tower for ourselves, whose top will reach high into the sky. We will become famous. Then we will not be scattered over all the earth."
Numbers 13:33
We saw the Nephilim people there. (The Anakites come from the Nephilim people.) We felt like grasshoppers, and we looked like grasshoppers to them."
Numbers 16:2
These men gathered two hundred fifty other Israelite men, well-known leaders chosen by the community, and challenged Moses.
Deuteronomy 3:11
(Only Og king of Bashan was left of the few Rephaites. His bed was made of iron, and it was more than thirteen feet long and six feet wide! It is still in the Ammonite city of Rabbah.)
1 Samuel 17:4
The Philistines had a champion fighter from Gath named Goliath. He was about nine feet, four inches tall. He came out of the Philistine camp

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.


 
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