Proverbs 4:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 36:4 : 4 He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.
  • Mic 2:1 : 1 A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.
  • Prov 1:16 : 16 For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.
  • Isa 57:20 : 20 But the evil-doers are like the troubled sea, for which there is no rest, and its waters send up earth and waste.
  • 2 Pet 2:14 : 14 Having eyes full of evil desire, never having enough of sin; turning feeble souls out of the true way; they are children of cursing, whose hearts are well used to bitter envy;
  • Luke 22:66 : 66 And when it was day, the rulers of the people came together, with the chief priests and the scribes, and they took him before their Sanhedrin, saying,
  • John 18:28 : 28 So they took Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the Praetorium. It was early. They themselves did not go into the Praetorium, so that they might not become unclean, but might take the Passover.

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  • Prov 4:17
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    17The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.

  • Mic 2:1
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    1A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.

  • Prov 1:16
    76%

    16For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.

  • Job 24:13-14
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    75%

    13Then there are those who are haters of the light, who have no knowledge of its ways, and do not go in them.

    14He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.

  • Hos 7:6
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    6For they have made their hearts ready like an oven, while they are waiting secretly; their wrath is sleeping all night; in the morning it is burning like a flaming fire.

  • Job 24:16-17
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    75%

    16In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.

    17For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.

  • Prov 4:15
    75%

    15Keep far from it, do not go near; be turned from it, and go on your way.

  • 1 Thess 5:7
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    7For those who are sleeping do so in the night; and those who are the worse for drink are so in the night;

  • Prov 24:15
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    15Do not keep a secret watch, O evil-doer, against the fields of the upright man, or send destruction on his resting-place:

  • Prov 24:2
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    2For the purposes of their hearts are destruction, and their lips are talking of trouble.

  • Prov 6:4
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    4Give no sleep to your eyes, or rest to them;

  • Ps 36:4
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    4He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.

  • Prov 1:18
    74%

    18And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves.

  • Isa 59:7-8
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    74%

    7Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.

    8They have no knowledge of the way of peace, and there is no sense of what is right in their behaviour: they have made for themselves ways which are not straight; whoever goes in them has no knowledge of peace.

  • Rom 3:15-16
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    74%

    15Their feet are quick in running after blood;

    16Destruction and trouble are in their ways;

  • Prov 1:11
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    11If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;

  • Job 4:13
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    13In troubled thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep comes on men,

  • Ps 64:4-5
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    4So that in secret they may let loose their arrows at the upright, suddenly and unseen.

    5They make themselves strong in an evil purpose; they make holes for secret nets; they say, Who will see it,

  • Isa 17:14
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    14In the evening there is fear, and in the morning they are gone. This is the fate of those who take our goods, and the reward of those who violently take our property for themselves.

  • Prov 21:7
    73%

    7By their violent acts the evil-doers will be pulled away, because they have no desire to do what is right.

  • Ps 35:20
    73%

    20For they do not say words of peace; in their deceit they are designing evil things against the quiet ones in the land.

  • Prov 24:33
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    33A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:

  • Ps 76:5
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    5Gone is the wealth of the strong, their last sleep has overcome them; the men of war have become feeble.

  • Ps 140:2
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    2For their hearts are full of evil designs; and they are ever making ready causes of war.

  • Ps 37:32
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    32The sinners are watching the upright man, desiring to put him to death.

  • Prov 4:19
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    19The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.

  • Prov 6:10
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    10A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:

  • Ps 55:10
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    10By day and night they go round the town, on the walls; trouble and sorrow are in the heart of it.

  • Job 24:6
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    6They get mixed grain from the field, and they take away the late fruit from the vines of those who have wealth.

  • Nah 1:10
    72%

    10For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.

  • Ps 21:11
    72%

    11For their thoughts were bitter against you: they had an evil design in their minds, which they were not able to put into effect.

  • Ps 14:4
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    4Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.

  • Prov 2:14
    72%

    14Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner;

  • Mic 7:3
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    3Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.

  • Prov 16:30
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    30He whose eyes are shut is a man of twisted purposes, and he who keeps his lips shut tight makes evil come about.

  • Ps 127:2
    71%

    2It is of no use for you to get up early, and to go late to your rest, with the bread of sorrow for your food; for the Lord gives to his loved ones in sleep.

  • Job 34:25
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    25For he has knowledge of their works, overturning them in the night, so that they are crushed.

  • Job 33:15
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    15In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep comes on men, while they take their rest on their beds;

  • Ps 37:14
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    14The evil-doers have taken out their swords, their bows are bent; for crushing the poor, and to put to death those who are upright in their ways.

  • Job 5:14
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    14In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.

  • Job 4:8
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    8What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves.

  • Eccl 5:12
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    12There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.

  • Job 3:17
    71%

    17There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest.

  • Ps 28:3
    71%

    3Do not take me away with the sinners and the workers of evil, who say words of peace to their neighbours, but evil is in their hearts.

  • Jer 5:26
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    26For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.