Proverbs 6:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 24:34 : 34 So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.
  • 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.
  • Prov 20:4 : 4 The hater of work will not do his ploughing because of the winter; so at the time of grain-cutting he will be requesting food and will get nothing.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 24:33-34
    2 verses
    95%

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

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

  • Prov 6:9-10
    2 verses
    77%

    9 How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep?

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

  • Prov 22:16
    77%

    16 He 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.

  • Prov 10:15
    76%

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

  • Prov 19:15
    74%

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

  • Prov 20:13
    73%

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

  • Job 15:23-24
    2 verses
    73%

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

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

  • Prov 28:22
    73%

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

  • Job 5:5
    73%

    5 Their 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.

  • Prov 13:7
    72%

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

  • Hag 1:6
    72%

    6 Much 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.

  • Prov 10:4
    72%

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

  • Prov 5:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

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

    11 And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted;

  • Prov 28:19
    72%

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

  • Prov 13:11
    72%

    11 Wealth quickly got will become less; but he who gets a store by the work of his hands will have it increased.

  • Mic 6:14
    72%

    14 You 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.

  • Eccl 5:12-15
    4 verses
    72%

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

    13 And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.

    14 As 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.

    15 And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind?

  • Prov 28:3
    71%

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

  • Prov 23:21
    71%

    21 For 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.

  • Job 18:12
    71%

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

  • Prov 13:23
    71%

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

  • Job 20:22
    71%

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

  • Jas 5:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

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

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

  • Prov 6:12
    71%

    12 A good-for-nothing man is an evil-doer; he goes on his way causing trouble with false words;

  • Job 15:21
    71%

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

  • Job 24:14
    71%

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

  • Hab 2:7
    71%

    7 Will not your creditors suddenly be moved against you, and your troublers get up from their sleep, and you will be to them like goods taken in war?

  • Jer 6:25
    71%

    25 Go not out into the field or by the way; for there is the sword of the attacker, and fear on every side.

  • Deut 28:29
    70%

    29 You 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.

  • Ps 37:14
    70%

    14 The 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.

  • Prov 6:15
    70%

    15 For this cause his downfall will be sudden; quickly he will be broken, and there will be no help for him.

  • Prov 1:27
    70%

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

  • Job 5:16
    70%

    16 So the poor man has hope, and the mouth of the evil-doer is stopped.

  • Ezek 4:17
    70%

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

  • 1 Tim 6:9
    70%

    9 But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.

  • Amos 5:11
    70%

    11 So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.

  • Isa 47:11
    70%

    11 Because of this evil will come on you, which may not be turned away for any price: and trouble will overtake you, from which no money will give salvation: destruction will come on you suddenly, without your knowledge.

  • Prov 28:27
    70%

    27 He who gives to the poor will never be in need, but great curses will be on him who gives no attention to them.

  • Eccl 10:18
    70%

    18 When no work is done the roof goes in, and when the hands do nothing water comes into the house.

  • Job 22:10
    70%

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

  • Amos 8:4
    70%

    4 Give 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,

  • Isa 17:14
    70%

    14 In 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.