Proverbs 6:4

World English Bible (2000)

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 your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as 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 Sheol, where you are going.
  • Matt 24:17-18 : 17 Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out things that are in his house. 18 Let him who is in the field not return back to get his clothes.
  • Mark 13:35-36 : 35 Watch therefore, for you don't know when the lord of the house is coming, whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning; 36 lest coming suddenly he might 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 structure of my house, nor go up into 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, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?

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

    11so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.

  • Prov 20:13
    80%

    13Don't 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%

    5Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare 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. Fix your gaze directly before you.

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

    6so then let's not sleep, as the rest do, but let's 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, since you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor.

  • Prov 4:15-16
    2 verses
    75%

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

    16For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

  • Prov 6:24-25
    2 verses
    74%

    24to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.

    25Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate 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 will neither slumber nor sleep.

  • Ps 127:2
    73%

    2It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.

  • Ps 13:3
    73%

    3Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;

  • Prov 6:22
    73%

    22When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.

  • Mark 13:36
    72%

    36lest coming suddenly he might 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. The 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%

    4Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

  • 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%

    21Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart.

  • Prov 22:26-27
    2 verses
    71%

    26Don't you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts.

    27If you don't have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

  • Ps 77:4
    71%

    4You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can't speak.

  • Prov 5:9
    70%

    9lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one;

  • Job 33:15
    70%

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

  • Luke 22:46
    70%

    46and said to them, "Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation."

  • Eccl 8:16
    70%

    16When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes),

  • Job 36:20
    70%

    20Don't desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.

  • Job 15:12
    70%

    12Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,

  • Isa 5:27
    69%

    27None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the belt of their waist be untied, nor the latchet 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, Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: you who call on Yahweh, take no rest,

  • Jer 31:26
    69%

    26On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.

  • Prov 6:1
    69%

    1My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger;

  • Ps 44:23
    69%

    23Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don't reject us forever.

  • Ps 119:148
    69%

    148My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might meditate on your word.

  • Prov 31:3
    69%

    3Don't give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.

  • Job 14:12
    69%

    12so man lies down and doesn't rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

  • Deut 24:12
    69%

    12If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;

  • Prov 1:15
    68%

    15My son, don't walk in the way with them. Keep your foot from their path,

  • Ps 121:6
    68%

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