Proverbs 6:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Give no sleep to your eyes, or rest to them;

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 132:4 : 4 I will not give sleep to my eyes, or rest to my eyeballs,
  • Prov 6:10-11 : 10 A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep: 11 Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man
  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.
  • Matt 24:17-18 : 17 Let not him who is on the house-top go down to take anything out of his house: 18 And let not him who is in the field go back to get his coat.
  • Mark 13:35-36 : 35 So you are to keep watch: because you are not certain when the master of the house is coming, in the evening, or in the middle of the night, or at the cock's cry, or in the morning; 36 For fear that, coming suddenly, he sees you sleeping.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 132:3-4
    2 verses
    84%

    3 Truly, I will not come into my house, or go to my bed,

    4 I will not give sleep to my eyes, or rest to my eyeballs,

  • Prov 6:9-11
    3 verses
    80%

    9 How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep?

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

    11 Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man

  • Prov 20:13
    80%

    13 Do not be a lover of sleep, or you will become poor: keep your eyes open, and you will have bread enough.

  • Prov 24:33
    77%

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

  • Prov 6:5-6
    2 verses
    77%

    5 Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her.

    6 Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise:

  • Prov 4:25
    76%

    25 Keep your eyes on what is in front of you, looking straight before you.

  • 1 Thess 5:6-7
    2 verses
    75%

    6 So then, let us not take our rest as the others do, but let us be self-controlled and awake.

    7 For those who are sleeping do so in the night; and those who are the worse for drink are so in the night;

  • Prov 6:3
    75%

    3 Do this, my son, and make yourself free, because you have come into the power of your neighbour; go without waiting, and make a strong request to your neighbour.

  • Prov 4:15-16
    2 verses
    75%

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

    16 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.

  • Prov 6:24-25
    2 verses
    74%

    24 They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.

    25 Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.

  • Ps 121:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3 May he not let your foot be moved: no need of sleep has he who keeps you.

    4 See, the eyes of Israel's keeper will not be shut in sleep.

  • Ps 127:2
    73%

    2 It 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.

  • Ps 13:3
    73%

    3 Let my voice come before you, and give me an answer, O Lord my God; let your light be shining on me, so that the sleep of death may not overtake me;

  • Prov 6:22
    73%

    22 In your walking, it will be your guide; when you are sleeping, it will keep watch over you; when you are awake, it will have talk with you.

  • Mark 13:36
    72%

    36 For fear that, coming suddenly, he sees you sleeping.

  • Job 4:13
    72%

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

  • Prov 19:15
    71%

    15 Hate of work sends deep sleep on a man: and he who has no industry will go without food.

  • Prov 3:24
    71%

    24 When you take your rest you will have no fear, and on your bed sleep will be sweet to you.

  • Prov 23:4
    71%

    4 Take no care to get wealth; let there be an end to your desire for money.

  • Eccl 5:12
    71%

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

  • Prov 4:21
    71%

    21 Let them not go from your eyes; keep them deep in your heart.

  • Prov 22:26-27
    2 verses
    71%

    26 Be not one of those who give their hands in an agreement, or of those who make themselves responsible for debts:

    27 If you have nothing with which to make payment, he will take away your bed from under you.

  • Ps 77:4
    71%

    4 You keep my eyes from sleep; I am so troubled that no words come.

  • Prov 5:9
    70%

    9 For fear that you may give your honour to others, and your wealth to strange men:

  • Job 33:15
    70%

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

  • Luke 22:46
    70%

    46 And he said, Why are you sleeping? Get up, and give yourselves to prayer, so that you may not be put to the test.

  • Eccl 8:16
    70%

    16 When I gave my mind to the knowledge of wisdom and to seeing the business which is done on the earth (and there are those whose eyes see not sleep by day or by night),

  • Job 36:20
    70%

    20 ...

  • Job 15:12
    70%

    12 Why is your heart uncontrolled, and why are your eyes lifted up;

  • Isa 5:27
    69%

    27 There is no weariness among them, and no man is feeble-footed: they come without resting or sleeping, and the cord of their shoes is not broken.

  • Prov 3:21
    69%

    21 My son, keep good sense, and do not let wise purpose go from your eyes.

  • Isa 62:6
    69%

    6 I have put watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they will not keep quiet day or night: you who are the Lord's recorders, take no rest,

  • Jer 31:26
    69%

    26 At this, awaking from my sleep, I saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.

  • Prov 6:1
    69%

    1 My son, if you have made yourself responsible for your neighbour, or given your word for another,

  • Ps 44:23
    69%

    23 Why are you sleeping, O Lord? awake! and come to our help, do not give us up for ever.

  • Ps 119:148
    69%

    148 In the night watches I am awake, so that I may give thought to your saying.

  • Prov 31:3
    69%

    3 Do not give your strength to women, or your ways to that which is the destruction of kings.

  • Job 14:12
    69%

    12 So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.

  • Deut 24:12
    69%

    12 If he is a poor man, do not keep his property all night;

  • Prov 1:15
    68%

    15 My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:

  • Ps 121:6
    68%

    6 You will not be touched by the sun in the day, or by the moon at night.