Verse List for PROV 4:16

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Text critical issues=small word differences Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) because they can’t nap unless they’ve done some harm, ⇔ ≈ and they’ll be robbed of sleep if they haven’t caused trouble.

OET-LV If/because not they _will _sleep if not they _do _harm and_it _is _taken _away sleep _of_their if not they _bring _injury[fn].

ULT For they do not sleep if they do not do evil ⇔ and their sleep is robbed if they do not cause stumbling.

UST Do not act wickedly because it is as if evil people cannot even sleep unless they have done something evil on that day; ⇔  it is as if they cannot rest unless they hurt someone.

BSB & MSB For they cannot sleep ⇔  unless they do evil; ⇔ they are deprived of slumber ⇔  until they make someone fall.

OEB No OEB PROV book available

WEBBE & WMBB For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. ⇔  Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

NET For they cannot sleep unless they cause harm; ⇔ they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.

LSV For they do not sleep if they do no evil,
And their sleep has been taken away violently,
If they do not cause [some] to stumble.

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

T4T because evil people cannot sleep if they have not done some evil deed on that day. ⇔  They cannot rest if they have not harmed someone.

LEB • For they will not sleep if they have not done wrong,
• and they are robbed of their sleep if they do not cause stumbling.

BBE For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.

Moff For they cannot sleep till they have done some wrong, ⇔  till they have tripped up someone, they are sleepless;

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

ASV For they sleep not, except they do evil; ⇔ And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

DRA For they sleep not except they have done evil: and their sleep is taken away unless they have made some to fall.

YLT For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not [some] to stumble.

Drby For they sleep not except they have done mischief, and their sleep is taken away unless they have caused [some] to fall.

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

SLT For they slept not, if they shall not do evil; and their sleep was taken away, if they shall not cause to falter.

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

KJB-1769 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

KJB-1611 For they sleepe not except they haue done mischiefe: and their sleepe is taken away vnlesse they cause some to fall.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps For they sleepe not except they haue done mischiefe: and sleepe is taken from them, vntyll they haue done harme.
(For they sleep not except they have done mischief: and sleep is taken from them, until they have done harm.)

Gnva For they can not sleepe, except they haue done euill, and their sleepe departeth except they cause some to fall.
(For they cannot sleep, except they have done evil, and their sleep departeth except they cause some to fall.)

Cvdl For they can not slepe, excepte they haue first done some myschefe: nether take they eny rest, excepte they haue first done some harme.
(For they cannot sleep, except they have first done some mischief: neither take they any rest, except they have first done some harm.)

Wycl For thei slepen not, `no but thei han do yuele; and sleep is rauyschid fro hem, no but thei han disseyued.
(For they sleeping not, no but they have do evil; and sleep is rauyschid from hem, no but they have deceived.)

Luth Denn sie schlafen nicht, sie haben denn übel getan; und sie ruhen nicht, sie haben denn Schaden getan.
(Because they/she/them sleep not, they/she/them have because/than bad/evil did; and they/she/them rest(v) not, they/she/them have because/than damage/harm(n) did.)

ClVg Non enim dormiunt nisi malefecerint, et rapitur somnus ab eis nisi supplantaverint.
(Not/No because they_sleep except they_have_done_evil, and is_carried_away sleep away to_them except supplantaverint.)

UHB כִּ֤י לֹ֣א יִֽ֭שְׁנוּ אִם־לֹ֣א יָרֵ֑עוּ וְֽ⁠נִגְזְלָ֥ה שְׁ֝נָתָ֗⁠ם אִם־לֹ֥א יַכְשִֽׁילוּ׃ [fn] ‡

BrLXX Οὐ γὰρ μὴ ὑπνώσωσιν, ἐὰν μὴ κακοποιήσωσιν· ἀφῄρηται ὁ ὕπνος αὐτῶν, καὶ οὐ κοιμῶνται.

BrTr For they cannot sleep, unless they have done evil: their sleep is taken away, and they rest not.