Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
let not thine eyes sleep, nor thine eyelids slumber.
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.
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 Therefore my son, do this: and thou shalt be discharged, when thou art come into thy neighbour's danger. Go thy ways then soon, and entreat thy neighbour: 4 let not thine eyes sleep, nor thine eyelids slumber. 5 Save thyself as a doe from the hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 132:4
I will not suffer mine eyes to sleep, nor mine eyelids to slumber,
Proverbs 6:10-11
Yea, sleep on still a little, slumber a little, fold thy hands together yet a little, that thou mayest sleep:
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatsoever thou takest in hand to do, that do with all thy power: for among the dead, where thou goest unto, there is neither work, counsel, knowledge nor wisdom.
Matthew 24:17-18
And let him which is on the housetop, not come down to fetch anything out of his house.
Mark 13:35-36
Watch, therefore, for ye know not when the master of the house will come: whether at even, or at midnight; whether at the cock crowing, or in the dawning: