Proverbs 6:4

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Do this before you fall asleep or even get sleepy.

Cross References

Psalm 132:4

or close my eyelids,

Psalm 55:7

I would go and live in some distant desert.

Proverbs 6:3

and you are now in the power of someone else. Here is what you should do: go and beg for permission to call off the agreement.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Work hard at whatever you do. You will soon go to the world of the dead, where no one works or thinks or reasons or knows anything.