Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version For they cannot rest until they do evil; they are robbed of sleep till they make someone stumble. New Living Translation For evil people can’t sleep until they’ve done their evil deed for the day. They can’t rest until they’ve caused someone to stumble. English Standard Version For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble. Berean Standard Bible For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall. King James Bible For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall. New King James Version For they do not sleep unless they have done evil; And their sleep is taken away unless they make someone fall. New American Standard Bible For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; And they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone stumble. NASB 1995 For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; And they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone stumble. NASB 1977 For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; And they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone stumble. Legacy Standard Bible For they do not sleep unless they do evil; And they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone stumble. Amplified Bible For the wicked cannot sleep unless they do evil; And they are deprived of sleep unless they make someone stumble and fall. Christian Standard Bible For they can’t sleep unless they have done what is evil; they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone stumble. Holman Christian Standard Bible For they can’t sleep unless they have done what is evil; they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone stumble. American Standard Version For they sleep not, except they do evil; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall. Contemporary English Version They can't sleep or rest until they do wrong or harm some innocent victim. English Revised Version For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall. GOD'S WORD® Translation Wicked people cannot sleep unless they do wrong, and they are robbed of their sleep unless they make someone stumble. Good News Translation Wicked people cannot sleep unless they have done something wrong. They lie awake unless they have hurt someone. International Standard Version For they cannot sleep unless they are doing evil, and they are robbed of their sleep unless they cause someone to stumble. Majority Standard Bible For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall. NET Bible For they cannot sleep unless they cause harm; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble. New Heart English Bible For they do not sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall. Webster's Bible Translation For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall. World English Bible For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionFor they do not sleep if they do no evil, "" And their sleep has been taken away violently, "" If they do not cause [some] to stumble. Young's Literal Translation For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not some to stumble. Smith's Literal Translation For they slept not, if they shall not do evil; and their sleep was taken away, if they shall not cause to falter. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleFor they sleep not except they have done evil: and their sleep is taken away unless they have made some to fall. Catholic Public Domain Version For they do not sleep, unless they have done evil. And their sleep is quickly taken away from them, unless they have overthrown. New American Bible For they cannot rest unless they have done evil; if they do not trip anyone they lose sleep. New Revised Standard Version For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleFor they do not sleep until they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away until their evil devices are carried out. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated They do not sleep until they do evil and their sleep flees away until they do their desires. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917For they sleep not, except they have done evil; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall. Brenton Septuagint Translation For they cannot sleep, unless they have done evil: their sleep is taken away, and they rest not. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context A Father's Instruction…15Avoid it; do not travel on it. Turn from it and pass on by. 16For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall. 17For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.… Cross References Psalm 36:4 Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil. Micah 2:1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands. Isaiah 57:20-21 But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea, for it cannot be still, and its waves churn up mire and muck. / “There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.” Romans 3:15-17 “Their feet are swift to shed blood; / ruin and misery lie in their wake, / and the way of peace they have not known.” Isaiah 59:7-8 Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake. / The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their tracks. They have turned them into crooked paths; no one who treads on them will know peace. Job 15:35 They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant with deceit.” Matthew 23:13 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter. Jeremiah 14:10 This is what the LORD says about this people: “Truly they love to wander; they have not restrained their feet. So the LORD does not accept them; He will now remember their iniquity and punish them for their sins.” Ephesians 4:18-19 They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts. / Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more. Psalm 10:7-8 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue. / He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless. 1 Thessalonians 5:7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. John 3:19-20 And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil. / Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. Psalm 7:14 Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood. 2 Peter 2:14 Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed. Proverbs 1:16 For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood. Treasury of Scripture For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall. Proverbs 1:16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. Psalm 36:4 He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil. Isaiah 57:20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. Jump to Previous Cause Caused Evil Except Fall Mischief Robbed Sleep Slumber Someone Someone's Stumble Unless Violently WrongJump to Next Cause Caused Evil Except Fall Mischief Robbed Sleep Slumber Someone Someone's Stumble Unless Violently WrongProverbs 4 1. persuades to wisdom14. and to show wickedness 20. He exhorts to sanctification For they cannot sleep This phrase highlights the restless nature of the wicked. The Hebrew root word for "sleep" here is "yashen," which implies a state of rest or peace. In the context of this verse, it suggests that those who pursue evil are in a constant state of unrest. Historically, this reflects the understanding that sin disrupts the natural order and peace that God intends for humanity. The inability to sleep symbolizes a deeper spiritual unrest and a life out of alignment with God's will. unless they do evil they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Forכִּ֤י (kî) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction they cannot לֹ֣א (lō) Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no sleep יִֽ֭שְׁנוּ (yiš·nū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 3462: To be slack, languid, sleep, to grow old, stale, inveterate unless אִם־ (’im-) Conjunction Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not they do evil, יָרֵ֑עוּ (yā·rê·‘ū) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 7489: To spoil, to make, good for, nothing, bad they are deprived וְֽנִגְזְלָ֥ה (wə·niḡ·zə·lāh) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 1497: To pluck off, to flay, strip, rob of slumber שְׁ֝נָתָ֗ם (nā·ṯām) Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 8142: Sleep until אִם־ (’im-) Conjunction Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not they make someone fall, יַכְשִֽׁילוּ׃ (yaḵ·šî·lū) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 3782: To totter, waver, to falter, stumble, faint, fall Links Proverbs 4:16 NIVProverbs 4:16 NLT Proverbs 4:16 ESV Proverbs 4:16 NASB Proverbs 4:16 KJV Proverbs 4:16 BibleApps.com Proverbs 4:16 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 4:16 Chinese Bible Proverbs 4:16 French Bible Proverbs 4:16 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 4:16 For they don't sleep unless they do (Prov. 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