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16 For they (A)do not sleep unless they do evil;
And [a]they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone stumble.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 4:16 Lit their sleep is robbed

16 For they cannot rest until they do evil;(A)
    they are robbed of sleep till they make someone stumble.

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An Evil Time

Woe to those who (A)devise wickedness,
Who work out evil on their beds!
(B)When the light of the morning comes, they do it,
For it is in the (C)power of their hands.

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Human Plans and God’s Plans

Woe to those who plan iniquity,
    to those who plot evil(A) on their beds!(B)
At morning’s light they carry it out
    because it is in their power to do it.

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