Proverbs 6:4

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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%

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

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

  • Prov 6:9-11
    3 verses
    80%

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

    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.

  • Prov 20:13
    80%

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

  • Prov 24:33
    77%

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

  • Prov 6:5-6
    2 verses
    77%

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

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

  • Prov 4:25
    76%

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

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

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

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

  • Prov 6:3
    75%

    3 Do 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%

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

    16 For 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%

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

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

  • Ps 121:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

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

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

  • Ps 127:2
    73%

    2 [It 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%

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

  • Prov 6:22
    73%

    22 When 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%

    36 ‹Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.›

  • Job 4:13
    72%

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

  • Prov 19:15
    71%

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

  • Prov 3:24
    71%

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

  • Prov 23:4
    71%

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

  • Eccl 5:12
    71%

    12 The 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%

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

  • Prov 22:26-27
    2 verses
    71%

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

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

  • Ps 77:4
    71%

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

  • Prov 5:9
    70%

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

  • Job 33:15
    70%

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

  • Luke 22:46
    70%

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

  • Eccl 8:16
    70%

    16 When 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%

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

  • Job 15:12
    70%

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

  • Isa 5:27
    69%

    27 None 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%

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

  • Isa 62:6
    69%

    6 ¶ I 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%

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

  • Prov 6:1
    69%

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

  • Ps 44:23
    69%

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

  • Ps 119:148
    69%

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

  • Prov 31:3
    69%

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

  • Job 14:12
    69%

    12 So 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%

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

  • Prov 1:15
    68%

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

  • Ps 121:6
    68%

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