OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 4

Proverbs 6:4

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Give no sleep to your eyes,

nor slumber to your eyelids.

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Proverbs 6:1–7

1

My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor,

if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger,

2

you are trapped by the words of your mouth;

you are ensnared with the words of your mouth.

3

Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself,

since you have come into the hand of your neighbor.

Go, humble yourself.

Press your plea with your neighbor.

4
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Give no sleep to your eyes,

nor slumber to your eyelids.

5

Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,

like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

6

Go to the ant, you sluggard.

Consider her ways, and be wise;

7

which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

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