Proverbs 6:4

King James Version 1611 (Original)

Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 132:4 : 4 I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,
  • Prov 6:10-11 : 10 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: 11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
  • Matt 24:17-18 : 17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: 18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
  • Mark 13:35-36 : 35 Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: 36 Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 132:3-4
    2 verses
    84%

    3Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;

    4I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,

  • Prov 6:9-11
    3 verses
    80%

    9How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

    10Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

    11So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

  • Prov 20:13
    80%

    13Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

  • Prov 24:33
    77%

    33Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

  • Prov 6:5-6
    2 verses
    77%

    5Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

    6Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

  • Prov 4:25
    76%

    25Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

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

    6Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

    7For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

  • Prov 6:3
    75%

    3Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.

  • Prov 4:15-16
    2 verses
    75%

    15Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.

    16For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

  • Prov 6:24-25
    2 verses
    74%

    24To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

    25Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

  • Ps 121:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.

    4Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

  • Ps 127:2
    73%

    2It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

  • Ps 13:3
    73%

    3Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

  • Prov 6:22
    73%

    22When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.

  • Mark 13:36
    72%

    36Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

  • Job 4:13
    72%

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

  • Prov 19:15
    71%

    15Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

  • Prov 3:24
    71%

    24When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

  • Prov 23:4
    71%

    4Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.

  • Eccl 5:12
    71%

    12The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

  • Prov 4:21
    71%

    21Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.

  • Prov 22:26-27
    2 verses
    71%

    26Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.

    27If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

  • Ps 77:4
    71%

    4Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

  • Prov 5:9
    70%

    9Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

  • Job 33:15
    70%

    15In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

  • Luke 22:46
    70%

    46And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.

  • Eccl 8:16
    70%

    16When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)

  • Job 36:20
    70%

    20Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.

  • Job 15:12
    70%

    12Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,

  • Isa 5:27
    69%

    27None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:

  • Prov 3:21
    69%

    21My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:

  • Isa 62:6
    69%

    6I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,

  • Jer 31:26
    69%

    26Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.

  • Prov 6:1
    69%

    1My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,

  • Ps 44:23
    69%

    23Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.

  • Ps 119:148
    69%

    148Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.

  • Prov 31:3
    69%

    3Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.

  • Job 14:12
    69%

    12So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

  • Deut 24:12
    69%

    12And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:

  • Prov 1:15
    68%

    15My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

  • Ps 121:6
    68%

    6The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.