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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Gill's Exposition
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief,.... Or they cannot sleep, as Jarchi and Gersom interpret it. Oftentimes they cannot sleep on their beds for devising mischief, their thoughts are so…
The counsel which has come to him, in substance, from his father. Compare it with 2Sa 23:2 etc.; 1Ch 28:9; 1Ch 29:17; Psa 15:1-5; Psa 24:1-10; Ps. 37. Pro 4:7 Or, “The beginning of wisdom is - get…
Some make David's instructions to Solomon, which began Pro 4:4, to continue to the end of the chapter; nay, some continue them to the end of the ninth chapter; but it is more probable that Solomon…
Cambridge Bible
their sleep is taken away Comp.:
"Ergo non aliter poterit dormire; quibusdam
Somnum rixa facit." Juv. Sat. III. 281, 2.
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