Proverbs 4:16

World English Bible (2000)

For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 36:4 : 4 He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn't abhor evil.
  • Mic 2:1 : 1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
  • Prov 1:16 : 16 for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.
  • Isa 57:20 : 20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can't rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt.
  • 2 Pet 2:14 : 14 having eyes full of adultery, and who can't cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;
  • Luke 22:66 : 66 As soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people was gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying,
  • John 18:28 : 28 They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn't enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.

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

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    1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

  • Prov 1:16
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    16 for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

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    13 "These are of those who rebel against the light. They don't know its ways, nor stay in its paths.

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  • Hos 7:6
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    6 For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.

  • Job 24:16-17
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    16 In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.

    17 For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

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    15 Avoid it, and don't pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.

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

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    15 Don't lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don't destroy his resting place:

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    2 for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about mischief.

  • Prov 6:4
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    4 Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.

  • Ps 36:4
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    4 He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn't abhor evil.

  • Prov 1:18
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    18 but these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly 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; desolation and destruction are in their paths.

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    15 "Their feet are swift to shed blood.

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    11 If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

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

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    4 to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.

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    14 At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.

  • Prov 21:7
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    7 The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right.

  • Ps 35:20
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    20 For they don't speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

  • Prov 24:33
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    33 a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep;

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

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    4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don't call on Yahweh?

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    25 Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

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

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