Proverbs 6:11 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ 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.

Proverbs 6:11 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 19:15

Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; And the idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Proverbs 20:13

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; Open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

Proverbs 20:4

The slothful will not plow by reason of the winter; Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Proverbs 23:21

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: And drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

Proverbs 24:33

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

Proverbs 24:34

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

Ecclesiastes 4:5

The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.