Proverbs 4:16
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4:16For they cannot sleep unless they cause harm;32
they are robbed of sleep33 until they make someone stumble.34
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- 32 The verb is רָעַע (ra’a’), which means “to do evil; to harm.” The verse is using the figure of hyperbole to stress the preoccupation of some people with causing trouble. R. L. Alden says, “How sick to find peace only at the price of another man’s misfortune” (Proverbs, 47).
- 33 Heb “their sleep is robbed/seized”; these expressions are metonymical for their restlessness in plotting evil.
- 34 The Hiphil imperfect (Kethib) means “cause to stumble.” This idiom (from hypocatastasis) means “bring injury/ruin to someone” ( 505–6 כָּשַׁל Hiph. 1).
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong;
they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
For they cannot rest until they do evil;
they are robbed of sleep till they make someone stumble.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
For they can’t sleep
unless they have done what is evil;
they are robbed of sleep
unless they make someone stumble.
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NLTNew Living Translation
For evil people can’t sleep until they’ve done their evil deed for the day.
They can’t rest until they’ve caused someone to stumble.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
For they will not sleep if they have not done wrong,
and they are robbed of their sleep if they do not cause stumbling.
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KJV 1900King James Version
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief;
And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
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