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Good News Translation
Proverbs 4:16
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For they can’t sleepunless they have done what is evil;they are robbed of sleepunless they make someone stumble.
For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.
because they cannot sleep until they do evil. They cannot rest until they harm someone.
For they cannot sleep unless they cause harm; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.
For the wicked cannot sleep unless they do evil; And they are deprived of sleep unless they make someone stumble and fall.
For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; And they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone stumble.
For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
For they can not sleepe, except they haue done euill, and their sleepe departeth except they cause some to fall.
For they do not sleep unless they do evil;And they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone stumble.
For they cannot sleep unless they do evil, they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall,
They can't sleep or rest until they do wrong or harm some innocent victim.
For they can't sleep if they haven't done evil, they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone fall.
For they sleep not except they have done mischief, and their sleep is taken away unless they have caused [some] to fall.
The wicked cannot sleep until they have done something evil. They will not rest until they bring someone down.
For they do not sleep until they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away until their evil devices are carried out.
For they will not sleep if they have not done wrong, and they are robbed of their sleep if they do not cause stumbling.
For they do not sleep if they have done no evil, and their sleep is taken away unless they cause some to fall.
For they can not slepe, excepte they haue first done some myschefe: nether take they eny rest, excepte they haue first done some harme.
For they sleep not, except they do evil; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.
For they sleep not, except they have done evil; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
For they sleepe not except they haue done mischiefe: and their sleepe is taken away vnlesse they cause some to fall.
For they sleepe not except they haue done mischiefe: and sleepe is taken from them, vntyll they haue done harme.
For they cannot sleep, unless they have done evil: their sleep is taken away, and they rest not.
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
For thei slepen not, `no but thei han do yuele; and sleep is rauyschid fro hem, no but thei han disseyued.
For they don't sleep, except they do evil; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause [some] to fall.
For they do not sleep unless they have done evil; And their sleep is taken away unless they make someone fall.
For evil people can't sleep until they've done their evil deed for the day. They can't rest until they've caused someone to stumble.
For they cannot sleep unless they do wrong. They are robbed of sleep unless they make someone fall.
For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.
For they sleep not, unless they can do mischief, - They rob themselves of their sleep, if they cannot cause someone to stumble,
For they sleep not, except they have done evil: and their sleep is taken away unless they have made some to fall.
For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made some one stumble.
For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not [some] to stumble.
Evil people are restless unless they're making trouble; They can't get a good night's sleep unless they've made life miserable for somebody. Perversity is their food and drink, violence their drug of choice.
For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; And they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone stumble.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Proverbs 1:16, Psalms 36:4, Isaiah 57:20, Micah 2:1, Luke 22:66, John 18:28, 2 Peter 2:14
Reciprocal: Genesis 19:4 - But Genesis 27:42 - comfort himself Genesis 34:25 - Simeon Exodus 1:22 - Every son Exodus 32:22 - that they are Judges 9:32 - by night 1 Samuel 23:14 - Saul 2 Samuel 15:2 - rose up 2 Samuel 17:1 - I will arise Ezra 4:23 - they went up Esther 3:15 - hastened Esther 5:14 - he caused Job 24:5 - rising Psalms 26:10 - In Isaiah 59:4 - they conceive Jeremiah 9:5 - weary Hosea 7:6 - they Micah 7:3 - do Matthew 27:1 - the morning Luke 11:24 - seeking John 13:30 - went Acts 23:15 - that he Acts 24:7 - the chief Acts 25:2 - General
Cross-References
That evening they heard the Lord God walking in the garden, and they hid from him among the trees.
You are driving me off the land and away from your presence. I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth, and anyone who finds me will kill me."
When the people heard the thunder and the trumpet blast and saw the lightning and the smoking mountain, they trembled with fear and stood a long way off.
but the Lord was kind and merciful to them. He would not let them be destroyed, but helped them because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He has never forgotten his people.
The Lord became so angry with the people of Jerusalem and Judah that he banished them from his sight.
"All right," the Lord said to Satan, "everything he has is in your power, but you must not hurt Job himself." So Satan left.
Then Satan left the Lord 's presence and made sores break out all over Job's body.
They will not live to see rivers of olive oil or streams that flow with milk and honey.
But all who find safety in you will rejoice; they can always sing for joy. Protect those who love you; because of you they are truly happy.
As smoke is blown away, so he drives them off; as wax melts in front of the fire, so do the wicked perish in God's presence.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief,.... Or they cannot sleep, as Jarchi and Gersom interpret it. Oftentimes they cannot sleep on their beds for devising mischief, their thoughts are so intensely set on contriving wicked schemes; and when they have so done, they cannot sleep until they have executed them; they are continually restless and uneasy day and night, like the troubled sea, constantly casting up mire and dirt. Who would keep such company as these?
and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause [some] to fall; into the snares and traps they lay for them, or into sin and calamity by it; the former of which they endeavour by all means to draw men into, and the latter is the unavoidable consequence of it. They imitate their father the devil, both delight in sin, and in the ruin of their fellow creatures; it is a sport to thereto do mischief, and they have no pleasure without it; see Proverbs 11:23. What company are such!
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The counsel which has come to him, in substance, from his father. Compare it with 2 Samuel 23:2 etc.; 1 Chronicles 28:9; 1 Chronicles 29:17; Psalms 15:1-5; Psalms 24:1-10; Psalms 37:0.
Proverbs 4:7
Or, âThe beginning of wisdom is - get wisdom.â To seek is to find, to desire is to obtain.
Proverbs 4:12
The ever-recurring parable of the journey of life. In the way of wisdom the path is clear and open, obstacles disappear; in the quickest activity (âwhen thou runnestâ) there is no risk of falling.
Proverbs 4:13
She is thy life - Another parallel between personified Wisdom in this book and the Incarnate Wisdom in John 1:4.
Proverbs 4:16
A fearful stage of debasement. Sin is the condition without which there can be no repose.
Proverbs 4:17
i. e., Bread and wine gained by unjust deeds. Compare Amos 2:8. A less probable interpretation is, âThey eat wickedness as bread, and drink violence as wine.â Compare Job 15:16; Job 34:7.
Proverbs 4:18
Shining ... shineth - The two Hebrew words are different; the first having the sense of bright or clear. The beauty of a cloudless sunshine growing on, shining as it goes, to the full and perfect day, is chosen as the fittest figure of the ever increasing brightness of the good manâs life. Compare the marginal reference.
Proverbs 4:19
Compare our Lordâs teaching John 11:10; John 12:35.
Proverbs 4:20
The teacher speaks again in his own person.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 4:16. Except they have done mischief — The night is their time for spoil and depredation. And they must gain some booty, before they go to rest. This I believe to be the meaning of the passage. I grant, also, that there may be some of so malevolent a disposition that they cannot be easy unless they can injure others, and are put to excessive pain when they perceive any man in prosperity, or receiving a kindness. The address in Virgil, to an ill-natured shepherd is well known: -
Et cum vidisti puero donata, dolebas:
Et si non aliqua nocuisses, mortuus esses.
ECLOG. iii. 14.
"When thou sawest the gifts given to the lad, thou wast distressed; and hadst thou not found some means of doing him a mischief, thou hadst died."
