Proverbs 6:4
Give not sleep to thy eyes, neither let thy eyelids slumber.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ne dederis somnum oculis tuis, nec dormitent palpebræ tuæ.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- μὴ δῷς ὕπνον σοῖς ὄμμασιν, μηδὲ ἐπινυστάξῃς σοῖς βλεφάροις,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אַל תִּתֵּ֣ן שֵׁנָ֣ה לְעֵינֶ֑יךָ וּ֝תְנוּמָ֗ה לְעַפְעַפֶּֽיךָ
The Fathers on this verse
St Gregory the Great The Book of Pastoral Rule, How subjects and prelates are to be admonished
( Admonition 5.) Differently to be admonished are subjects and prelates: the former that subjection crush them not, the latter that superior place elate them not: the former that they fail not to fulfil what is commanded them, the latter that they command not more to be fulfilled than is just: the former that they submit humbly, the latter that they preside temperately. For this, which may be understood also figuratively, is said to the former, Children, obey your parents in the Lord : but to the latter it is enjoined, And ye, fathers, provoke not your children to wrath ( Coloss. iii. 20, 21 ). Let the former learn how to order their inward thoughts before the eyes of the hidden judge; the latter how also to those that are committed to them to afford outwardly examples of good living. …