Proverbs 6:4 {5}
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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.

Lexicon
Allow
תִּתֵּ֣ן (tit·tên)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5414: To give, put, set

no
אַל־ (’al-)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 408: Not

sleep
שֵׁנָ֣ה (šê·nāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8142: Sleep

to your eyes
לְעֵינֶ֑יךָ (lə·‘ê·ne·ḵā)
Preposition-l | Noun - cdc | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5869: An eye, a fountain

or slumber
וּ֝תְנוּמָ֗ה (ū·ṯə·nū·māh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8572: Drowsiness, sleep

to your eyelids.
לְעַפְעַפֶּֽיךָ׃ (lə·‘ap̄·‘ap·pe·ḵā)
Preposition-l | Noun - mdc | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6079: An eyelash, morning ray


Additional Translations
Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.Give not sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.

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

Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber with thine eyelids;

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

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

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

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

Give not sleep to thine eyes, And slumber to thine eyelids,
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