Verse Lens · Context pointer
Proverbs 3:24 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 24. 24When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
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Role in This Section
This verse opens with “When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid” and develops the line through “yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet”.
Read It With
- Proverbs 3:21–26
Read Proverbs 3:24 with 3:21–26. Read alone, “When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt…” could turn a compressed observation, warning, comparison, or command into a guarantee or complete policy. The full unit establishes: opens with “My son, let not them depart from thine eyes” and develops the line through “keep sound wisdom and discretion”; by 3:26, it contributes the claim, image, or instruction “For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken”. Together the unit concentrates on life, death, safety, and the long direction of choices, family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care, wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception within “Purpose, parental discourses, and the rival invitations of Wisdom and Folly.”
Why It Needs Context
Read this role inside the complete unit: the verse opens with “When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid” and develops the line through “yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet”. It does not carry a responsible standalone mandate apart from Proverbs 3:21–26.
Continue in Context
Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.
Read Proverbs 3:21–26 — Keep sound wisdom and walk securelySources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV words, canonical order, paragraph flags, supplied-word markup, and complete unit coverage.
Exact location: Proverbs 3:21–26, repository-pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Proverbs
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology used only for the exact unit's lexical, grammatical, parallel, superscription, number-saying, and acrostic questions.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Prov.xml, OSIS 3:21-3:26
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