Proverbs 6:4 {5}
Good News Translation
Don't let yourself go to sleep or even stop to rest.

New Revised Standard Version
Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber;

Contemporary English Version
Do this before you fall asleep or even get sleepy.

New American Bible
Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Deliver thyself as a doe from the hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

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Deliver thyself as a doe from the hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

Proverbs 6:10,11 And want shall come upon thee, as a traveller, and poverty as a man armed. But if thou be diligent, thy harvest shall come as a fountain, and want shall flee far from thee. . . .

Psalm 132:4 If I shall give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids,

Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening.

Matthew 24:17,18 And he that is on the housetop, let him not come down to take any thing out of his house: . . .

Mark 13:35,36 Watch ye therefore (for you know not when the lord of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cock crowing, or in the morning): . . .

Context
Warnings Against Foolishness
3Give not sleep to thy eyes, neither let thy eyelids slumber. 4Deliver thyself as a doe from the hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.5Go to the ant, O sluggard, and consider her ways, and learn wisdom:…
Cross References
Psalm 132:4
If I shall give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids,

Proverbs 6:3
Give not sleep to thy eyes, neither let thy eyelids slumber.

Proverbs 6:3
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