Proverbs 6:11 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹¹ and poverty will come upon you like a vagabond, and want like 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 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 10:4

A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

Proverbs 13:4

The soul of the sluggard craves, and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.

Proverbs 19:15

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.

Proverbs 20:13

Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.

Proverbs 20:4

The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.

Proverbs 23:21

for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.

Proverbs 24:33

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,

Proverbs 24:34

and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.

Ecclesiastes 4:5

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