Proverbs 6:4

Don't delay, saying that you'll sleep on it. Don't rest until you've done it.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

3So this is what you have to do. You need to get out of it, because you've put yourself in that person's power. Go to your neighbor in all humility and ask him to release you from the commitment.

5Get out of it like a gazelle escaping from a trap, like a bird from a bird-catcher's net.

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Cross References

Psalms 55:7I would fly far away to escape, and stay in the wilderness. Selah.

Proverbs 6:10You may say, “Please, just a little more sleep, a little longer snooze, a little more folding of the arms to rest”—

Matthew 24:17Anyone who is on the housetop must not go down and fetch what's in the house.

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 6:2-6

Cautions against Suretiship. 1 My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger, 2 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth. 3 Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend. 4 Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids. 5 Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler. It is… Read the whole commentary →

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