Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
For they sleep not except they have done mischief, and their sleep is taken away unless they have caused some to fall.
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
Holman Bible
unless they have done what is evil;
they are robbed of sleep
unless they make someone stumble.
International Standard Version
For they cannot sleep unless they are doing evil, and they are robbed of their sleep unless they cause someone to stumble.
A Conservative Version
For they do not sleep unless they do evil. And their sleep is taken away unless they cause to fall.
American Standard Version
For they sleep not, except they do evil; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
Amplified
For the wicked cannot sleep unless they do evil;
And they are deprived of sleep unless they make someone stumble and fall.
Bible in Basic English
For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.
Julia Smith Translation
For they slept not, if they shall not do evil; and their sleep was taken away, if they shall not cause to falter.
King James 2000
For they sleep not, unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause someone to fall.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For they will not sleep if they have not done wrong, and they are robbed of their sleep if they do not cause stumbling.
Modern King James verseion
For they do not sleep, except when they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away unless they cause some to fall.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For they cannot sleep, except they have first done some mischief: neither take they any rest, except they have first done some harm.
NET Bible
For they cannot sleep unless they cause harm; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.
New Heart English Bible
For they do not sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
The Emphasized Bible
For they sleep not, unless they can do mischief, - They rob themselves of their sleep, if they cannot cause someone to stumble,
Webster
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
World English Bible
For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
Youngs Literal Translation
For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not some to stumble.
Themes
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 4:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Right Path
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 have caused some to fall. 17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
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Cross References
Psalm 36:4
He deviseth wickedness up on his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good: he abhorreth not evil.
Micah 2:1
Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Proverbs 1:16
for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
Isaiah 57:20
But the wicked are like the troubled sea, which cannot rest, and whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
2 Peter 2:14
having eyes full of adultery, and that cease not from sin, alluring unestablished souls; having a heart practised in covetousness, children of curse;
Luke 22:66
And when it was day, the elderhood of the people, both the chief priests and scribes, were gathered together, and led him into their council, saying,
John 18:28
They lead therefore Jesus from Caiaphas to the praetorium; and it was early morn. And they entered not into the praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but eat the passover.