Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

Don’t give sleep to your eyes
or slumber to your eyelids.

New American Standard Bible

Give no sleep to your eyes,
Nor slumber to your eyelids;

King James Version

Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine 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.

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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
נתן 
Nathan 
Usage: 2011

not sleep
שׁנא שׁנה 
Shehah 
Usage: 23

תּנוּמה 
T@nuwmah 
Usage: 5

References

Easton

Smith

Context Readings

Against Pledges

3 Do this, then, my son, and free yourself,
for you have put yourself in your neighbor’s power:
Go, humble yourself, and plead with your neighbor.
4 Don’t give sleep to your eyes
or slumber to your eyelids.
5 Escape like a gazelle from a hunter,
like a bird from a fowler’s trap.


Cross References

Psalm 132:4

I will not allow my eyes to sleep
or my eyelids to slumber

Proverbs 6:10-11

A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the arms to rest,

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hands find to do, do with all your strength, because there is no work, planning, knowledge, or wisdom in Sheol where you are going.

Matthew 24:17-18

A man on the housetop must not come down to get things out of his house.

Mark 13:35-36

Therefore be alert, since you don’t know when the master of the house is coming—whether in the evening or at midnight or at the crowing of the rooster or early in the morning.

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