Proverbs 6:11 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹¹ and your poverty will come like a robber, your need, like a bandit.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, And thy want as an armed man.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ So will your poverty come like a robber or one who travels [with slowly but surely approaching steps] and your want like an armed man [making you helpless]. [Prov. 10:4; 13:4; 20:4.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ So shall thy poverty come as a robber, And thy want as an armed man.

Common English Bible

¹¹ and poverty will come on you like a prowler, destitution like a warrior.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ and then destitution will meet with you, like a traveler, and poverty, like an armed man. Yet truly, if you would be diligent, then your harvest will arrive like a fountain, and destitution will flee far from you.

Proverbs 6:11 Cross References

Proverbs 10:4

Idle hands make one poor, but diligent hands bring riches.

Proverbs 13:4

The slacker craves, yet has nothing, but the diligent is fully satisfied.

Proverbs 19:15

Laziness induces deep sleep, and a lazy person will go hungry.

Proverbs 20:13

Don’t love sleep, or you will become poor; open your eyes, and you’ll have enough to eat.

Proverbs 20:4

The slacker does not plough during planting season; at harvest time he looks,  and there is nothing.

Proverbs 23:21

For the drunkard and the glutton will become poor, and grogginess will clothe them in rags.

Proverbs 24:33

a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the arms to rest,

Proverbs 24:34

and your poverty will come like a robber, and your need, like a bandit.

Ecclesiastes 4:5

The fool folds his arms and consumes his own flesh.