Proverbs 6:11 - Easy To Read Version

¹¹ But he sleeps and sleeps. And he becomes poorer and poorer. Soon he will have nothing! It will be like a robber has come and stolen everything.

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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 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 10:4

A lazy person will be poor. But a person that works hard will be rich.

Proverbs 13:4

The lazy person wants things, but he can never get them. But people who work hard will get the things they want.

Proverbs 19:15

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Proverbs 20:13

If you love to sleep, then you will become poor. But use your time working and you will have plenty to eat.

Proverbs 20:4

A lazy person is too lazy to plant seeds. So, at the time of harvest he looks for food and finds nothing.

Proverbs 23:21

People who drink too much and eat too much become poor. All they do is eat, drink, sleep, and soon they have nothing.

Proverbs 24:33

a little sleep, a little rest, folding your arms, and taking a nap.

Proverbs 24:34

These things will make you poor very quickly. You will have nothing, as if a thief broke in and took everything away.

Ecclesiastes 4:5

Some people say, “It is foolish to fold your hands and do nothing. If you don’t work, you will starve to death.”