Proverbs 4:16
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.

Young's Literal Translation
For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not [some] to stumble.

King James Bible
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause [some] to fall {08675;03782:08799}.

Hebrew
For
כִּ֤י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

they cannot
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

sleep
יִֽ֭שְׁנוּ (yiš·nū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 3462: To be slack, languid, sleep, to grow old, stale, inveterate

unless
אִם־ (’im-)
Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

they do evil,
יָרֵ֑עוּ (yā·rê·‘ū)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 7489: To spoil, to make, good for, nothing, bad

they are deprived
וְֽנִגְזְלָ֥ה (wə·niḡ·zə·lāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1497: To pluck off, to flay, strip, rob

of slumber
שְׁ֝נָתָ֗ם (nā·ṯām)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 8142: Sleep

until
אִם־ (’im-)
Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

they make someone fall,
יַכְשִֽׁילוּ׃ (yaḵ·šî·lū)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 3782: To totter, waver, to falter, stumble, faint, fall

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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