Proverbs 4:16
World English Bible (WEB)
For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
In context
14 Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men.
15 Avoid it, and don’t pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.
16 For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
17 For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
18 But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.
Proverbs 4:16 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
- KJV King James Version
- For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.
- ASV American Standard Version
- For they sleep not, except they do evil; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not [some] to stumble.
- DBY Darby Translation
- For they sleep not except they have done mischief, and their sleep is taken away unless they have caused [some] to fall.
- WBS Webster Bible
- For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.