Proverbs 6:4

Do not give sleep to your eyes, || And slumber to your eyelids,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

3Do this now, my son, and be delivered, || For you have come into the hand of your friend. Go, trample on yourself, and strengthen your friend,

5Be delivered as a roe from the hand, || And as a bird from the hand of a fowler.

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Cross References

Psalms 55:7Behold, I move far off, || I lodge in a wilderness. Selah.

Proverbs 6:10A little sleep, a little slumber, || A little clasping of the hands to rest,

Matthew 24:17he on the housetop—do not let him come down to take up anything out of his house;

John 5:4for a messenger at a set time was going down in the pool, and was troubling the water, the first then having gone in after the troubling of the water, became whole of whatever sickness he was held.]]

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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