Proverbs 6:4

Give your eyes no sleep 1 and your eyelids no slumber. 1

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

3When you are caught by your words, my son, do this and save yourself, 1 since you have fallen into the hand of your neighbor; 1 go and humble yourself and make your case before your neighbor. 1

5Save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, 1 like a bird from the hand of the fowler. 1

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Cross References

Psalms 55:7See, then I would wander far away; 1 I would stay in the wilderness. Selah 1

Proverbs 6:10“A little sleep, a little slumber, 1 a little folding of the hands to rest”— 1

Matthew 24:17let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house,

John 5:4+ 5:4 The best ancient copies omit vs. 4, For an angel of the Lord went down and stirred up the water at certain times and whoever stepped in while the water was stirring was healed from whatever disease he suffered from .

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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