Proverbs 24:34

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 10:4 : 4 He who is slow in his work becomes poor, but the hand of the ready worker gets in wealth.
  • Prov 13:4 : 4 The hater of work does not get his desires, but the soul of the hard workers will be made fat.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 6:10-11
    2 verses
    95%

    10A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:

    11Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man

  • 33A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:

  • 16He who is cruel to the poor for the purpose of increasing his profit, and he who gives to the man of wealth, will only come to be in need.

  • 15The property of the man of wealth is his strong town: the poor man's need is his destruction.

  • Job 24:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

    4The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together.

    5Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.

  • Job 15:23-24
    2 verses
    73%

    23He is wandering about in search of bread, saying, Where is it? and he is certain that the day of trouble is ready for him:

    24He is greatly in fear of the dark day, trouble and pain overcome him:

  • 13Do not be a lover of sleep, or you will become poor: keep your eyes open, and you will have bread enough.

  • 15Hate of work sends deep sleep on a man: and he who has no industry will go without food.

  • 14He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.

  • 4He who is slow in his work becomes poor, but the hand of the ready worker gets in wealth.

  • 22He who is ever desiring wealth goes running after money, and does not see that need will come on him.

  • 21For those who take delight in drink and feasting will come to be in need; and through love of sleep a man will be poorly clothed.

  • 22Even when his wealth is great, he is full of care, for the hand of everyone who is in trouble is turned against him.

  • 14As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.

  • Job 24:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    9The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.

    10Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields.

  • 23There is much food in the ploughed land of the poor; but it is taken away by wrongdoing.

  • 71%

    43But be certain of this, that if the master of the house had had knowledge of the time when the thief was coming, he would have been watching, and would not have let his house be broken into.

    44Be ready then; for at a time which you have no thought of the Son of man will come.

  • 19By ploughing his land a man will have bread in full measure; but he who goes after good-for-nothing persons will be poor enough.

  • 21A sound of fear is in his ears; in time of peace destruction will come on him:

  • 12His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.

  • 14In the evening there is fear, and in the morning they are gone. This is the fate of those who take our goods, and the reward of those who violently take our property for themselves.

  • 3A man of wealth who is cruel to the poor is like a violent rain causing destruction of food.

  • 35For so it will come on all those who are living on the face of all the earth.

  • 27When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you.

  • Jas 5:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.

    2Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.

  • 10And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others;

  • 36For fear that, coming suddenly, he sees you sleeping.

  • 12If he is a poor man, do not keep his property all night;

  • 5Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.

  • 7A man may be acting as if he had wealth, but have nothing; another may seem poor, but have great wealth.

  • 6Much has been planted, but little got in; you take food, but have not enough; you take drink, but are not full; you are clothed, but no one is warm; and he who gets payment for his work, gets it to put it into a bag full of holes.

  • 29You will go feeling your way when the sun is high, like a blind man for whom all is dark, and nothing will go well for you: you will be crushed and made poor for ever, and you will have no saviour.

  • 10If you give way in the day of trouble, your strength is small.

  • 14You will have food, but not enough; your shame will be ever with you: you will get your goods moved, but you will not take them away safely; and what you do take away I will give to the sword.

  • 12There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.

  • 17So that they may be in need of bread and water and be wondering at one another, wasting away in their sin.

  • 4Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land,

  • 5But now it has come on you and it is a weariness to you; you are touched by it and your mind is troubled.

  • 23In all hard work there is profit, but talk only makes a man poor.

  • 30And the poorest of the land will have food, and those in need will be given a safe resting-place: but your seed will come to an end for need of food, and the rest of you will be put to the sword.

  • 25Shaking fear is coming; and they will be looking for peace, and there will be no peace.

  • 31And it was all full of thorns, and covered with waste plants, and its stone wall was broken down.

  • 10For this cause nets are round your feet, and you are overcome with sudden fear.

  • 14The evil-doers have taken out their swords, their bows are bent; for crushing the poor, and to put to death those who are upright in their ways.