Proverbs 4:16

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 36:4 : 4 He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.
  • Mic 2:1 : 1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
  • Prov 1:16 : 16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
  • Isa 57:20 : 20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
  • 2 Pet 2:14 : 14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
  • Luke 22:66 : 66 And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the chief priests and the scribes came together, and led him into their council, saying,
  • John 18:28 : 28 Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.

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  • 17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

  • 1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

  • 16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

  • Job 24:13-14
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    13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

    14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

  • 6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.

  • Job 24:16-17
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    16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

    17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

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

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

  • 15 Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:

  • 2 For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

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

  • 4 He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.

  • 18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk ivily for their own lives.

  • Isa 59:7-8
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    7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

    8 The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.

  • Rom 3:15-16
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    15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:

    16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:

  • 11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk ivily for the innocent without cause:

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

  • Ps 64:4-5
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    4 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

    5 They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?

  • 14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

  • 7 The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.

  • 20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

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

  • 5 The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.

  • 2 Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.

  • 32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.

  • 19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

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

  • 10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.

  • 6 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.

  • 10 For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

  • 11 For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

  • 4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.

  • 14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;

  • 3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

  • 30 He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.

  • 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.

  • 25 Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

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

  • 14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.

  • 14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

  • 8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

  • 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.

  • 17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

  • 3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.

  • 26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.