Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
Give not sleep to thine eyes, Nor slumber to thine eyelids;
New American Standard Bible
Nor slumber to your eyelids;
King James Version
Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
Holman Bible
or slumber to your eyelids.
International Standard Version
Don't allow yourself to sleep or even to close your eyes.
A Conservative Version
Do not give sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
Amplified
Give no [unnecessary] sleep to your eyes,
Nor slumber to your eyelids;
Bible in Basic English
Give no sleep to your eyes, or rest to them;
Darby Translation
Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids:
Julia Smith Translation
Thou shalt not give sleep to thine eyes, and slumber to thine eyelashes.
King James 2000
Give not sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Do not give sleep to your eyes, or slumber to your eyelids.
Modern King James verseion
Do not give sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
let not thine eyes sleep, nor thine eyelids slumber.
NET Bible
Permit no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.
New Heart English Bible
Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.
The Emphasized Bible
Do not give sleep to thine eyes, or slumber to thine eyelashes;
Webster
Give not sleep to thy eyes, nor slumber to thy eyelids.
World English Bible
Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.
Youngs Literal Translation
Give not sleep to thine eyes, And slumber to thine eyelids,
Interlinear
Nathan
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 6:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Against Pledges
3 Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, Seeing thou art come into the hand of thy neighbor: Go, humble thyself, and importune thy neighbor; 4 Give not sleep to thine eyes, Nor slumber to thine eyelids; 5 Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter , And as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 132:4
I will not give sleep to mine eyes, Or slumber to mine eyelids;
Proverbs 6:10-11
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep:
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest.
Matthew 24:17-18
let him that is on the housetop not go down to take out things that are in his house:
Mark 13:35-36
Watch therefore: for ye know not when the lord of the house cometh, whether at even, or at midnight, or at cockcrowing, or in the morning;