THEOSISProverbs 4:16Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
For they sleep not, except they have done evil: and their sleep is taken away unless they have made some to fall.
כִּ֤י לֹ֣א יִֽ֭שְׁנוּ אִם־לֹ֣א יָרֵ֑עוּ וְֽנִגְזְלָ֥ה שְׁ֝נָתָ֗ם אִם־לֹ֥א יכשולו יַכְשִֽׁילוּ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Ps 36 (35):4
- Mic 2:1Woe to you that devise that which is unprofitable, and work evil in your beds: in the morning light they execute it, because their hand is against God.
- Isa 57:20But the wicked are like the raging sea, which cannot rest, and the waves thereof cast up dirt and mire.
- Prov 1:16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
- 2 Pet 2:14Having eyes full of adultery and of sin that ceaseth not: alluring unstable souls: having their heart exercised with covetousness: children of malediction.
- Luke 22:66And as soon as it was day, the ancients of the people and the chief priests and scribes came together. And they brought him into their council saying: If thou be the Christ, tell us.
- John 18:28Then they led Jesus from Caiphas to the governor's hall. And it was morning: and they went not into the hall, that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the pasch.