💡WEB · Proverbs 4:16
What does Proverbs 4:16 mean?
"For they don’t sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall."
— Proverbs 4:16 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Take firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.
Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men.
Avoid it, and don’t pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.
For they don’t sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.
The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.
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