Proverbs 4:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

For they do not sleep unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

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  • Ps 36:4 : 4 He devises mischief upon his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not abhor evil.
  • Mic 2:1 : 1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it because it is in the power of their hand.
  • Prov 1:16 : 16 For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
  • Isa 57:20 : 20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
  • 2 Pet 2:14 : 14 Having eyes full of adultery and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. They have a heart trained in covetous practices and are accursed children.
  • Luke 22:66 : 66 And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the chief priests and the scribes came together, and led him into their council, saying,
  • John 18:28 : 28 Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the hall of judgment, and it was early. But they themselves did not go into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled, but that they might eat the Passover.

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  • Prov 4:17
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    17For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

  • Mic 2:1
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    1Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it because it is in the power of their hand.

  • Prov 1:16
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    16For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

  • Job 24:13-14
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    13They are among those who rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths.

    14The murderer, rising with the light, kills the poor and needy, and in the night is like a thief.

  • Hos 7:6
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    6For they prepare their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait: their baker sleeps all the night; in the morning it burns like a flaming fire.

  • Job 24:16-17
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    16In the dark they break into houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.

    17For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death; if one knows them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

  • Prov 4:15
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    15Avoid it, do not pass by it, turn from it, and pass away.

  • 1 Thess 5:7
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    7For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

  • Prov 24:15
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    15Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; do not spoil his resting place.

  • Prov 24:2
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    2For their hearts plot destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

  • Prov 6:4
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    4Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.

  • Ps 36:4
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    4He devises mischief upon his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not abhor evil.

  • Prov 1:18
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    18And they lie in wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.

  • Isa 59:7-8
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    7Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; devastation and destruction are in their paths.

    8The way of peace they do not know; and there is no justice in their paths: they have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever walks therein shall not know peace.

  • Rom 3:15-16
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    15'Their feet are swift to shed blood:'

    16'Destruction and misery are in their ways:'

  • Prov 1:11
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    11If they say, "Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

  • Job 4:13
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    13In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

  • Ps 64:4-5
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    4That they may shoot in secret at the blameless; suddenly do they shoot at him and fear not.

    5They encourage themselves in an evil matter; they talk of laying snares secretly; they say, Who shall see them?

  • Isa 17:14
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    14And behold, at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of those who spoil us, and the lot of those who rob us.

  • Prov 21:7
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    7The robbery of the wicked will destroy them, because they refuse to do justice.

  • Ps 35:20
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    20For they speak not peace; but they devise deceitful matters against those who are quiet in the land.

  • Prov 24:33
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    33A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.

  • Ps 76:5
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    5The stouthearted have been plundered, they have slept their sleep; and none of the mighty men have found their hands.

  • Ps 140:2
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    2Who devise mischiefs in their hearts; continually they gather together for war.

  • Ps 37:32
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    32The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to slay him.

  • Prov 4:19
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    19The way of the wicked is like darkness: they do not know at what they stumble.

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    10A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

  • Ps 55:10
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    10Day and night they go about it upon its walls; mischief and sorrow are in the midst of it.

  • Job 24:6
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    6They reap each one his grain in the field and gather the vintage of the wicked.

  • Nah 1:10
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    10For while they are entangled like thorns and while they are drunken like drunkards, they shall be devoured as fully dry stubble.

  • Ps 21:11
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    11For they intended evil against you: they devised a mischievous scheme, which they are not able to perform.

  • Ps 14:4
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    4Do all the workers of iniquity have no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon the LORD?

  • Prov 2:14
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    14Who rejoice to do evil and delight in the perversity of the wicked;

  • Mic 7:3
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  • Prov 16:30
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    30He shuts his eyes to devise perverse things; moving his lips, he brings evil to pass.

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    2It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, to eat the bread of sorrows; for He gives His beloved sleep.

  • Job 34:25
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    25Therefore He knows their works, and He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

  • Job 33:15
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    15In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

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    14The wicked have drawn the sword and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay those who are of upright conduct.

  • Job 5:14
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    14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at midday as if it were night.

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    8Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow wickedness reap the same.

  • Eccl 5:12
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    12The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

  • Job 3:17
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    17There the wicked cease from troubling; there the weary are at rest.

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    3Do not draw me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

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    26For among my people are found wicked men: they lay in wait, as he who sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.