Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Do not give sleep to thine eyes, or slumber to thine eyelashes;
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;
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.
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 then, my son, and deliver thyself, When thou hast come into the hand of thy neighbour, Go, haste thee, and urge thy neighbour; 4 Do not give sleep to thine eyes, or slumber to thine eyelashes; 5 Deliver thyself, as a gazelle out of the hand, and as a bird, out of the hand of the fowler.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 132:4
I will not give sleep to mine eyes, nor, to mine eye-lashes, slumber:
Proverbs 6:10-11
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest: -
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, with thy might, do, - for there is no work nor calculation nor knowledge nor wisdom, in hades, whither, thou, art going.
Matthew 24:17-18
And, he that is on the house-top, let him not come down, to take away the things out of his house;
Mark 13:35-36
Be watching, therefore, for ye know not, when, the master of the house, is coming, - whether at even, or at midnight, or at cock-crowing, or at early morn; -