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Proverbs 6:4
Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids:
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Proverbs 6:4 in other translations
Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.
Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.
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In context
1 My son, if thou hast become surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand for a stranger,
2 thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
3 Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, since thou hast come into the hand of thy friend: go, humble thyself, and be urgent with thy friend.
4 Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids:
5 deliver thyself as a gazelle from the hand [of the hunter], and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise:
7 which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,
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