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Proverbs 4:16
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
Proverbs 4:16 · King James Version
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Proverbs 4:16 in other translations
For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.
For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
For they do not sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
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In context
13 Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
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