Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Proverbs 6:4
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Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.
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Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
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Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.
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Give not sleep to thine eyes, Nor slumber to thine eyelids;
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Proverbs 6
2 if you have been trapped by the words of your lips, ensnared by the words of your mouth,
3 then do this, my son, to free yourself, for you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands: Go, humble yourself, and press your plea with your neighbor.
4 Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.
5 Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
6 Walk in the manner of the ant, O slacker; observe its ways and become wise.
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