Proverbs 6:11 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised and your poverty will come like a robber, your need, like a bandit. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 slacker craves, yet has nothing, but the diligent is fully satisfied.
Don’t love sleep, or you will become poor; open your eyes, and you’ll have enough to eat.
The slacker does not plough during planting season; at harvest time he looks, and there is nothing.
For the drunkard and the glutton will become poor, and grogginess will clothe them in rags.
a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the arms to rest,
and your poverty will come like a robber, and your need, like a bandit.