Proverbs 6:4

Modern

Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.

Traditional

Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.

Literal

You should not give sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids—

Latin

Ne dederis somnum oculis tuis, nec dormitent palpebræ tuæ.

Hebrew

English

Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.

free yourself: The risk of disaster is so high that escaping is a matter of life and death, like animals trapped.

To secure someone else's debt means to use your own possessions as a guarantee. Whether you do this to gain a friend's goodwill or to profit from a stranger (see Exodus 22:25; Leviticus 25:36–37; Deuteronomy 23:19–20), the risk is too high. It could lead to financial ruin. This warning is repeated in Proverbs 11:15; 17:18; 20:16; 22:26; 27:13.

Psalm 132:4
I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids,
Proverbs 6:10–11
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
Mark 13:35–36
Therefore keep watch, because you do not know when the master of the house will return—whether in the evening, at midnight, when the rooster crows, or in the morning.
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
Matthew 24:17–18
Let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve anything from his house.