16 For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.
Proverbs 4:16
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Micah 2:1–2
1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands. 2 They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.
Proverbs 2:13–15
13 from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness, 14 from those who enjoy doing evil and rejoice in the twistedness of evil, 15 whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.
Sirach 27:9–11
9 Birds will return to their own kind, so truth will return to those who practice it. (WEB) 10 The lion lies in wait for prey. So does sin for those who do evil. (WEB) 11 The discourse of a godly man is always wise, but the fool changes like the moon. (WEB)
Psalms of Solomon 4:16–18
16 Let his life be spent in anguish, and penury, and want, O Lord; Let his sleep be beset with pains and his awaking with perplexities. (PSS) 17 Let sleep be withdrawn from his eyelids at night; Let him fail dishonourably in every work of his hands. (PSS) 18 Let him come home empty… (PSS)
Proverbs 6:3–5
3 then do this, my son, to free yourself, for you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands: Go, humble yourself, and press your plea with your neighbor. 4 Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids. 5 Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunte…
Psalms 132:3–5
3 “I will not enter my house or get into my bed, 4 I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids, 5 until I find a place for the LORD, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”
Job 24:13–15
13 Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths. 14 When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief. 15 The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No e…
Proverbs 1:15–17
15 my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path. 16 For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood. 17 How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!
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