Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Don't allow yourself to sleep or even to close your eyes.
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.
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
Nathan
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 6:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Against Pledges
3 then do this, my son, and deliver yourself, because you have come under your neighbor's control. Go, humble yourself! Plead passionately with your neighbor! 4 Don't allow yourself to sleep or even to close your eyes. 5 Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a hunter's hand, or like a bird from a fowler's hand.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 132:4
or let myself go to sleep or even take a nap,
Proverbs 6:10-11
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatever the activity in which you engage, do it with all your ability, because there is no work, no planning, no learning, and no wisdom in the next world where you're going.
Matthew 24:17-18
Anyone who's on the housetop must not come down to get what is in his house,
Mark 13:35-36
So keep on watching, because you don't know when the master of the house is coming whether in the evening, at three o'clock in the morning, or at dawn.