Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Thou shalt not give sleep to thine eyes, and 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:
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 when thou camest into the hand of thy friend; go humble thyself and enlarge thy friend. 4 Thou shalt not give sleep to thine eyes, and slumber to thine eyelashes. 5 Deliver thyself as the roe from the hand, and as the bird from the hand of the fowler.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 132:4
If I shall give sleep to mine eyes, slumber to mine eye-lashes,
Proverbs 6:10-11
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down:
Ecclesiastes 9:10
All which thy hand shall find to do, with thy strength, do thou; for no work and understanding and knowledge and wisdom, in hades where thou goest there.
Matthew 24:17-18
He upon the house-tops, let him not come down to take away anything out of his house:
Mark 13:35-36
Watch therefore: for ye know not when the lord of the house comes, at eve, or midnight, or cock-crowing, or morning.