Proverbs 6:4
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.
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- Ps 132:3-42 verses84%
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,
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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.
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13 Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
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33 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
- Prov 6:5-62 verses77%
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:
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25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
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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.
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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.
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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 6:24-252 verses74%
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 121:3-42 verses74%
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.
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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.
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3 Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
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22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
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36 Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
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13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
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15 Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
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24 When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
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4 Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
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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.
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21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
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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?
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4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
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9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
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15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;
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46 And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.
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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:)
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20 Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
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12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
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21 My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:
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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,
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26 Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.
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1 My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
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23 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
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148 Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.
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3 Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.
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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.
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12 And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
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15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
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6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.