Proverbs 4:16

WEB

¹⁶For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

KJV

¹⁶For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

BSB

¹⁶For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.

FBV

¹⁶Evil people won't rest until they've done something wrong; they can't sleep unless they've tripped someone up.

Extra References

Psalms 36:4

⁴He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

Micah 2:1

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

Isaiah 57:20

²⁰But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can’t rest and its waters cast up mire and mud.

2 Peter 2:14

¹⁴having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin, enticing unsettled souls, having a heart trained in greed, accursed children!

Proverbs 1:16

¹⁶for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

Luke 22:66

⁶⁶As soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people were gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying,

John 18:28

²⁸They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.