Proverbs 4:16 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

More versions

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 his mouth are mischief and deceit; he has ceased to act wisely and do good.

Psalm 36:4

He plots mischief while on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he spurns not evil.

Proverbs 1:16

for their feet run to evil, and they make haste 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; for it cannot rest, and its waters toss up mire and dirt.

Jeremiah 9:4

Let every one beware of his neighbor, and put no trust in any brother; for every brother is a supplanter, and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.

Micah 2:1

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

Micah 7:3

Their hands are upon what is evil, to do it diligently; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together.

Luke 22:66

When day came, the assembly of the elders of the people gathered together, both chief priests and scribes; and they led him away to their council, and they said,

John 18:28

Then they led Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the praetorium. It was early. They themselves did not enter the praetorium, so that they might not be defiled, but might eat the passover.

Acts 24:7

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!