Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Give no sleep to your eyes, or rest to them;
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.
American Standard Version
Give not sleep to thine eyes, Nor slumber to thine eyelids;
Amplified
Give no [unnecessary] sleep to your eyes,
Nor slumber to your eyelids;
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, my son, and make yourself free, because you have come into the power of your neighbour; go without waiting, and make a strong request to your neighbour. 4 Give no sleep to your eyes, or rest to them; 5 Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her.
Names
Cross References
Proverbs 6:10-11
A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.
Matthew 24:17-18
Let not him who is on the house-top go down to take anything out of his house:
Mark 13:35-36
So you are to keep watch: because you are not certain when the master of the house is coming, in the evening, or in the middle of the night, or at the cock's cry, or in the morning;