Proverbs 6:11 - Tree of Life Version

and your poverty comes like a bandit and your need like an armed man.

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King 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.

Proverbs 6:11 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 10:4

Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.

Proverbs 13:4

The slacker’s soul craves, yet has nothing, but the diligent soul will be satisfied.

Proverbs 19:15

Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will starve.

Proverbs 20:13

Do not love sleep, lest you become poor. Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with food.

Proverbs 20:4

A slacker will not plow in season, so at harvest he looks but finds nothing.

Proverbs 23:21

for both drunkards and gluttons will be impoverished— grogginess will clothe them with rags.

Proverbs 24:33

“A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep,”

Proverbs 24:34

then your poverty comes tramping in, and your need like an armed soldier.

Ecclesiastes 4:5

The fool folds his hands together and eats his own flesh.