Proverbs 6:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 132:4 : 4 I will not give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids,
  • Prov 6:10-11 : 10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: 11 So shall your poverty come upon you like a traveler, and your need like an armed man.
  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave where you go.
  • Matt 24:17-18 : 17 Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house. 18 And let him who is in the field not turn back to take his clothes.
  • Mark 13:35-36 : 35 Watch therefore: for you do not know when the master of the house comes, in the evening, or at midnight, or at the rooster crowing, 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 tent of my house, nor go up to my bed;

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

  • Prov 6:9-11
    3 verses
    80%

    9How long will you sleep, O sluggard? when will you arise out of your sleep?

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

    11So shall your poverty come upon you like a traveler, and your need like an armed man.

  • Prov 20:13
    80%

    13Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

  • Prov 24:33
    77%

    33A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.

  • Prov 6:5-6
    2 verses
    77%

    5Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, and like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

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

  • Prov 4:25
    76%

    25Let your eyes look straight ahead, and let your eyelids look straight before you.

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

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

    7For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

  • Prov 6:3
    75%

    3Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, when you have come into the hand of your friend; go, humble yourself, and make sure your friend.

  • Prov 4:15-16
    2 verses
    75%

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

    16For they do not sleep unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

  • Prov 6:24-25
    2 verses
    74%

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

    25Do not lust after her beauty in your heart; neither let her take you with her eyelids.

  • Ps 121:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3He will not allow your foot to be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber.

    4Behold, he who keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

  • Ps 127:2
    73%

    2It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, to eat the bread of sorrows; for He gives His beloved sleep.

  • Ps 13:3
    73%

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

  • Prov 6:22
    73%

    22When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall keep you; and when you awake, it shall talk with you.

  • 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 falls on men,

  • Prov 19:15
    71%

    15Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

  • Prov 3:24
    71%

    24When you lie down, you will not be afraid: yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet.

  • Prov 23:4
    71%

    4Do not labor to be rich; cease from your own wisdom.

  • Eccl 5:12
    71%

    12The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

  • Prov 4:21
    71%

    21Do not let them depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart.

  • Prov 22:26-27
    2 verses
    71%

    26Do not be one of those who shake hands, or of those who are sureties for debts.

    27If you have nothing to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

  • Ps 77:4
    71%

    4You hold my eyes wide awake: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

  • Prov 5:9
    70%

    9Lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel:

  • Job 33:15
    70%

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

  • Luke 22:46
    70%

    46And said to them, Why do you sleep? Rise and pray, lest you enter into temptation.

  • Eccl 8:16
    70%

    16When I applied my heart to know wisdom and to see the work that is done upon the earth (for there are those who neither day nor night see sleep with their eyes),

  • Job 36:20
    70%

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

  • Job 15:12
    70%

    12Why does your heart carry you away, and what do your eyes wink at,

  • Isa 5:27
    69%

    27None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the belt of their waists be loosed, nor the strap of their shoes be broken:

  • Prov 3:21
    69%

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

  • Isa 62:6
    69%

    6I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem, who shall never be silent day or night: you who remind the LORD, do not keep silent,

  • Jer 31:26
    69%

    26Upon this I awoke, and looked around; and my sleep was sweet to me.

  • Prov 6:1
    69%

    1My son, if you become surety for your friend, if you have shaken hands with a stranger,

  • Ps 44:23
    69%

    23Awake, why do You sleep, O Lord? Arise, cast us not off forever.

  • Ps 119:148
    69%

    148My eyes are awake through the night watches, that I may meditate on Your word.

  • Prov 31:3
    69%

    3Do not give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.

  • Job 14:12
    69%

    12So man lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, they shall not awake nor be raised out of their sleep.

  • Deut 24:12
    69%

    12And if the man is poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge:

  • Prov 1:15
    68%

    15My son, do not walk in the way with them, hold back your foot from their path;

  • Ps 121:6
    68%

    6The sun shall not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.