Proverbs 24:34 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³⁴ So shall thy poverty come as a robber; And thy want as an armed man.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁴ So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; And thy want as an armed man.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁴ So shall your poverty come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁴ So shall thy poverty come as a robber, And thy want as an armed man.

Common English Bible

³⁴ and poverty will come on you like a prowler, deprivation like a man with a shield.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁴ And destitution will overtake you like a runner, and begging will overtake you like an armed man."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁴ And poverty shall come to thee as a runner, and beggary as an armed man.

Proverbs 24:34 Cross References

Proverbs 10:4

He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: But the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

Proverbs 13:4

The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: But the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

Proverbs 18:9

He also that is slack in his work Is brother to him that is a destroyer.

Proverbs 24:33

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep:

Proverbs 25:1

These also are proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out

Proverbs 28:19

He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: But he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.

Proverbs 6:10

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep:

Proverbs 6:11

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