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New King James Version

Proverbs 6:4

Give no sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids.

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 Century Version
Don't go to sleep or even rest your eyes,
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 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 son, if you become surety for your friend, If you have shaken hands in pledge for a stranger, 2 You are snared by the words of your mouth; You are taken by the words of your mouth. 3 So do this, my son, and deliver yourself; For you have come into the hand of your friend: Go and humble yourself; Plead with your friend. 4 Give no sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids. 5 Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,And like a bird from the hand of the fowler. [fn]

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 this is how you shall make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
Genesis 6:20
Of the birds after their kind, of animals after their kind, and of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive.
Genesis 6:21
And you shall take for yourself of all food that is eaten, and you shall gather it to yourself; and it shall be food for you and for them."
Genesis 6:22
Thus Noah did; according to all that God commanded him, so he did.
Genesis 11:4
And they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth."
Numbers 13:33
33 There we saw the giants [fn] (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight."
Numbers 16:2
and they rose up before Moses with some of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty leaders of the congregation, representatives of the congregation, men of renown.
Deuteronomy 3:11
For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the giants. [fn] Indeed his bedstead was an iron bedstead. (Is it not in Rabbah of the people of Ammon?) Nine cubits is its length and four cubits its width, according to the standard cubit.
1 Samuel 17:4
And a champion went out from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, from Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.

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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