Proverbs 4:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For they cannot sleep unless they have caused trouble or vexation; their sleep is taken away unless they have caused someone to fall.

American Standard Version (1901)

For they sleep not, except they do evil; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

Common English Bible

They don’t sleep unless they do evil; they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone stumble.

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For they sleep not except they have done evil: and their sleep is taken away unless they have made some to fall.

Proverbs 4:16 Cross References

Psalm 36:3

The words of their mouths are mischief and deceit; they have ceased to act wisely and do good.

Psalm 36:4

They plot mischief while on their beds; they are set on a way that is not good; they do not reject evil.

Proverbs 1:16

for their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed blood.

Proverbs 2:14

who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil,

Proverbs 4:15

Avoid it; do not go on it; turn away from it and pass on.

Isaiah 57:20

But the wicked are like the tossing sea that cannot keep still; its waters toss up mire and mud.

Jeremiah 9:4

Beware of your neighbors, and put no trust in any of your kin, for all your kin are supplanters, and every neighbor goes around like a slanderer.

Micah 2:1

Woe to those who devise wickedness and evil deeds on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in their power.

Micah 7:3

Their hands are skilled to do evil; the official and the judge ask for a bribe, and the powerful dictate what they desire; thus they pervert justice.

Luke 22:66

When day came, the assembly of the elders of the people, both chief priests and scribes, gathered together, and they brought him to their council.

John 18:28

Then they took Jesus from Caiaphas to Pilate’s headquarters. It was early in the morning. They themselves did not enter the headquarters, so as to avoid ritual defilement and to be able to eat the Passover.

2 Peter 2:14

They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!