Proverbs 6:4

World English Bible

Give no sleep to your eyes,
nor slumber to your eyelids.

Read all of Proverbs 6Open in the Sinai app

Proverbs 6:4 in other translations

Give not sleep to thine eyes, Nor slumber to thine eyelids;

Proverbs 6:4 · American Standard Version

Proverbs 6:4 in context

  1. 2you are trapped by the words of your mouth;
    you are ensnared with the words of your mouth.
  2. 3Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself,
    since you have come into the hand of your neighbor.
    Go, humble yourself.
    Press your plea with your neighbor.
  3. 4Give no sleep to your eyes,
    nor slumber to your eyelids.
  4. 5Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,
    like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
  5. 6Go to the ant, you sluggard.
    Consider her ways, and be wise;