Proverbs 3:24 When you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
When you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.

English Standard Version
If you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.

New American Standard Bible
When you lie down, you will not be afraid; When you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.

King James Bible
When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When you lie down, you will not be afraid; you will lie down, and your sleep will be pleasant.

International Standard Version
When you sit down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be pleasant.

American Standard Version
When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: Yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If thou sleep, thou shalt not fear: thou shalt rest, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

Darby Bible Translation
when thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid, but thou shalt lie down and thy sleep shall be sweet.

Young's Literal Translation
If thou liest down, thou art not afraid, Yea, thou hast lain down, And sweet hath been thy sleep.

Cross References

Job 11:19
Also you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid; yes, many shall make suit to you.

Psalm 3:5
I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.

Psalm 112:8
His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, until he see his desire on his enemies.

Psalm 127:2
It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he gives his beloved sleep.

Proverbs 1:33
But whoever listens to me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.

Proverbs 6:22
When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall keep you; and when you wake, it shall talk with you.

Ecclesiastes 5:12
The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

Jeremiah 31:26
On this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet to me.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

3:21-26 Let us not suffer Christ's words to depart from us, but keep sound wisdom and discretion; then shall we walk safely in his ways. The natural life, and all that belongs to it, shall be under the protection of God's providence; the spiritual life, and all its interests, under the protection of his grace, so that we shall be kept from falling into sin or trouble.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

22-24. assign reasons in their value for happiness and ornament, guidance and support in dangers, both when waking and sleeping.