Proverbs 6:4
New International Version
Allow no sleep to your eyes, no slumber to your eyelids.

New Living Translation
Don’t put it off; do it now! Don’t rest until you do.

English Standard Version
Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber;

Berean Standard Bible
Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.

King James Bible
Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.

New King James Version
Give no sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids.

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

NASB 1995
Give no sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids;

NASB 1977
Do not give sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids;

Legacy Standard Bible
Give no sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids;

Amplified Bible
Give no [unnecessary] sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids;

Christian Standard Bible
Don’t give sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Don’t give sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.

American Standard Version
Give not sleep to thine eyes, Nor slumber to thine eyelids;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And you shall not give sleep to your eyes neither slumber to your eyelids

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

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
Give not sleep to thy eyes, neither let thy eyelids slumber.

English Revised Version
Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Don't let your eyes rest or your eyelids close.

Good News Translation
Don't let yourself go to sleep or even stop to rest.

International Standard Version
Don't allow yourself to sleep or even to close your eyes.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.

Literal Standard Version
Do not give sleep to your eyes, | And slumber to your eyelids,

Majority Standard Bible
Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.

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

NET Bible
Permit no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.

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

New Heart English Bible
Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.

Webster's Bible Translation
Give not sleep to thy eyes, nor slumber to thy eyelids.

World English Bible
Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.

Young's Literal Translation
Give not sleep to thine eyes, And slumber to thine eyelids,

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Warnings Against Foolishness
3then do this, my son, to free yourself, for you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands: Go, humble yourself, and press your plea with your neighbor. 4Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids. 5Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.…

Cross References
Psalm 132:4
I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids,

Proverbs 6:3
then do this, my son, to free yourself, for you have fallen into your neighbor's hands: Go, humble yourself, and press your plea with your neighbor.


Treasury of Scripture

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

Proverbs 6:10,11
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: …

Psalm 132:4
I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,

Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

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Verse 4. - This verse carries on the thought one step further. The appeal to the friend is not to be confined to one spasmodic effort and then relinquished. He is to be followed up pertinaciously and continually, with unwearied diligence, until prevailed upon to fulfil his engagements. Of this unwearied energy in the pursuit of an object in which cue is deeply interested, compare David's resolution, "I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids, until I find out a place for the Lord, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob" (Psalm 132:4, 5).

Parallel Commentaries ...


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

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

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

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

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

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


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