Proverbs 6:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want, like an armed warrior. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, And thy want as an armed man. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) So shall thy poverty come as a robber, And thy want as an armed man. Common English Bible and poverty will come on you like a prowler, destitution like a warrior. Catholic Public Domain Version 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And want shall come upon thee, as a traveller, and poverty as a man armed. But if thou be diligent, thy harvest shall come as a fountain, and want shall flee far from thee. |
The appetite of the lazy craves and gets nothing, while the appetite of the diligent is richly supplied.
Do not love sleep, or else you will come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.
The lazy person does not plow in season; harvest comes, and there is nothing to be found.
for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them with rags.
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want, like an armed warrior.