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Proverbs 6:4

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Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
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  1. Psalms 132:4Rank 1 from verse 4
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    4I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,

  2. Proverbs 6:10–11Rank 2 from verse 4
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    10Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

    11So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

  3. Mark 13:35–36Rank 3 from verse 4
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    35Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:

    36Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

  4. Ecclesiastes 9:10Rank 4 from verse 4
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    10Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

  5. Matthew 24:17–18Rank 5 from verse 4
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    17Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:

    18Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

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Proverbs 6:4

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sleep

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Sense 1: Natural bodily rest with suspended waking activity; figuratively, inattention or inactivity; or death described as sleep. Sense 2: To rest in sleep; figuratively, to lie in death.

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eyes

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The bodily organs of sight; by extension, sight, attention, observation, perception, understanding, desire, judgment, estimation, favour, or the presence and view before which something occurs.

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6:3Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.

6:4Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.

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6:5Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

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