Proverbs 4:16

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not `some' to stumble.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 36:4 : 4 Iniquity he deviseth on his bed, He stationeth himself on a way not good, Evil he doth not refuse.'
  • Mic 2:1 : 1 Wo `to' those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is -- to God.
  • Prov 1:16 : 16 For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.
  • Isa 57:20 : 20 And the wicked `are' as the driven out sea, For to rest it is not able, And its waters cast out filth and mire.
  • 2 Pet 2:14 : 14 having eyes full of adultery, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having an heart exercised in covetousnesses, children of a curse,
  • Luke 22:66 : 66 And when it became day there was gathered together the eldership of the people, chief priests also, and scribes, and they led him up to their own sanhedrim,
  • John 18:28 : 28 They led, therefore, Jesus from Caiaphas to the praetorium, and it was early, and they themselves did not enter into the praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the passover;

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  • Prov 4:17
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    17For they have eaten bread of wickedness, And wine of violence they drink.

  • Mic 2:1
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    1Wo `to' those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is -- to God.

  • Prov 1:16
    76%

    16For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.

  • Job 24:13-14
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    13They have been among rebellious ones of light, They have not discerned His ways, Nor abode in His paths.

    14At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy, And in the night he is as a thief.

  • Hos 7:6
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    6For they have drawn near, As an oven `is' their heart, In their lying in wait all the night sleep doth their baker, Morning! he is burning as a flaming fire.

  • Job 24:16-17
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    16He hath dug in the darkness -- houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light.

    17When together, morning `is' to them death shade, When he discerneth the terrors of death shade.

  • Prov 4:15
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    15Avoid it, pass not over into it, Turn aside from it, and pass on.

  • 1 Thess 5:7
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    7for those sleeping, by night do sleep, and those making themselves drunk, by night are drunken,

  • Prov 24:15
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    15Lay not wait, O wicked one, At the habitation of the righteous. Do not spoil his resting-place.

  • Prov 24:2
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    2For destruction doth their heart meditate, And perverseness do their lips speak.

  • Prov 6:4
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    4Give not sleep to thine eyes, And slumber to thine eyelids,

  • Ps 36:4
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    4Iniquity he deviseth on his bed, He stationeth himself on a way not good, Evil he doth not refuse.'

  • Prov 1:18
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    18And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.

  • Isa 59:7-8
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    7Their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed innocent blood, Their thoughts `are' thoughts of iniquity, Spoiling and destruction `are' in their highways.

    8A way of peace they have not known, And there is no judgment in their paths, Their paths they have made perverse for themselves, No treader in it hath known peace.

  • Rom 3:15-16
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    15Swift `are' their feet to shed blood.

    16Ruin and misery `are' in their ways.

  • Prov 1:11
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    11If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,

  • Job 4:13
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    13In thoughts from visions of the night, In the falling of deep sleep on men,

  • Ps 64:4-5
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    4To shoot in secret places the perfect, Suddenly they shoot him, and fear not.

    5They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, `Who doth look at it?'

  • Isa 17:14
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    14At even-time, lo, terror, before morning it is not, This `is' the portion of our spoilers, And the lot of our plunderers!

  • Prov 21:7
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    7The spoil of the wicked catcheth them, Because they have refused to do judgment.

  • Ps 35:20
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    20For they speak not peace, And against the quiet of the land, Deceitful words they devise,

  • Prov 24:33
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    33A little sleep -- a little slumber -- A little folding of the hands to lie down.

  • Ps 76:5
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    5Spoiled themselves have the mighty of heart, They have slept their sleep, And none of the men of might found their hands.

  • Ps 140:2
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    2Who have devised evils in the heart, All the day they assemble `for' wars.

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    32The wicked is watching for the righteous, And is seeking to put him to death.

  • Prov 4:19
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    19The way of the wicked `is' as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.

  • Prov 6:10
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    10A little sleep, a little slumber, A little clasping of the hands to rest,

  • Ps 55:10
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    10By day and by night they go round it, on its walls. Both iniquity and perverseness `are' in its midst,

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    6In a field his provender they reap, And the vineyard of the wicked they glean.

  • Nah 1:10
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    10For while princes `are' perplexed, And with their drink are drunken, They have been consumed as stubble fully dried.

  • Ps 21:11
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    11For they stretched out against Thee evil, They devised a wicked device, they prevail not,

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    4Have all working iniquity not known? Those consuming my people have eaten bread, Jehovah they have not called.

  • Prov 2:14
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    14Who are rejoicing to do evil, They delight in frowardness of the wicked,

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    3On the evil `are' both hands to do `it' well, The prince is asking -- also the judge -- for recompence, And the great -- he is speaking the mischief of his soul, And they wrap it up.

  • Prov 16:30
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    30Consulting his eyes to devise froward things, Moving his lips he hath accomplished evil.

  • Ps 127:2
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    2Vain for you who are rising early, Who delay sitting, eating the bread of griefs, So He giveth to His beloved one sleep.

  • Job 34:25
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    25Therefore He knoweth their works, And He hath overturned by night, And they are bruised.

  • Job 33:15
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    15In a dream -- a vision of night, In the falling of deep sleep on men, In slumberings on a bed.

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    14A sword have the wicked opened, And they have trodden their bow, To cause to fall the poor and needy, To slaughter the upright of the way.

  • Job 5:14
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    14By day they meet darkness, And as night -- they grope at noon.

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    8As I have seen -- ploughers of iniquity, And sowers of misery, reap it!

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    12Sweet `is' the sleep of the labourer whether he eat little or much; and the sufficiency of the wealthy is not suffering him to sleep.

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    17There the wicked have ceased troubling, And there rest do the wearied in power.

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    3Draw me not with the wicked, And with workers of iniquity, Speaking peace with their neighbours, And evil in their heart.

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    26For the wicked have been found among My people. It looketh about the covering of snares, They have set up a trap -- men they capture.