Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not some to stumble.
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
Holman Bible
unless they have done what is evil;
they are robbed of sleep
unless they make someone stumble.
International Standard Version
For they cannot sleep unless they are doing evil, and they are robbed of their sleep unless they cause someone to stumble.
A Conservative Version
For they do not sleep unless they do evil. And their sleep is taken away unless they cause to fall.
American Standard Version
For they sleep not, except they do evil; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
Amplified
For the wicked cannot sleep unless they do evil;
And they are deprived of sleep unless they make someone stumble and fall.
Bible in Basic English
For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.
Darby Translation
For they sleep not except they have done mischief, and their sleep is taken away unless they have caused some to fall.
Julia Smith Translation
For they slept not, if they shall not do evil; and their sleep was taken away, if they shall not cause to falter.
King James 2000
For they sleep not, unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause someone to fall.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For they will not sleep if they have not done wrong, and they are robbed of their sleep if they do not cause stumbling.
Modern King James verseion
For they do not sleep, except when they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away unless they cause some to fall.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For they cannot sleep, except they have first done some mischief: neither take they any rest, except they have first done some harm.
NET Bible
For they cannot sleep unless they cause harm; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.
New Heart English Bible
For they do not sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
The Emphasized Bible
For they sleep not, unless they can do mischief, - They rob themselves of their sleep, if they cannot cause someone to stumble,
Webster
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
World English Bible
For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
Themes
Activity » Evil » General references to
Evil » Activity » General references to
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 4:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Right Path
15 Avoid it, pass not over into it, Turn aside from it, and pass on. 16 For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not some to stumble. 17 For they have eaten bread of wickedness, And wine of violence they drink.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 36:4
Iniquity he deviseth on his bed, He stationeth himself on a way not good, Evil he doth not refuse.'
Micah 2:1
Woe to those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is -- to God.
Proverbs 1:16
For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.
Isaiah 57:20
And the wicked are as the driven out sea, For to rest it is not able, And its waters cast out filth and mire.
2 Peter 2:14
having eyes full of adultery, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having an heart exercised in covetousnesses, children of a curse,
Luke 22:66
And when it became day there was gathered together the eldership of the people, chief priests also, and scribes, and they led him up to their own sanhedrim,
John 18:28
They led, therefore, Jesus from Caiaphas to the praetorium, and it was early, and they themselves did not enter into the praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the passover;