Proverbs 24:34

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 10:4 : 4 Laziness leads to poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth.
  • Prov 13:4 : 4 The sluggard craves and gets nothing, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 6:10-11
    2 verses
    95%

    10A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest—

    11and poverty will come upon you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.

  • Prov 24:33
    82%

    33A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,

  • Prov 22:16
    75%

    16One who oppresses the poor to increase their wealth and one who gives gifts to the rich will both come to poverty.

  • Prov 10:15
    75%

    15The wealth of the rich is their fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor.

  • Job 24:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

    4They turn the needy off the path, and the poor of the land are forced to hide together.

    5Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they go out for their work diligently seeking prey; the steppe provides food for their children.

  • Job 15:23-24
    2 verses
    73%

    23He wanders about for food, asking, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at hand.

    24Distress and anguish terrify him; they overpower him like a king prepared for battle.

  • Prov 20:13
    73%

    13Do not love sleep, lest you become poor; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.

  • Prov 19:15
    72%

    15Laziness brings on deep sleep, and a lazy soul will go hungry.

  • Job 24:14
    72%

    14At daybreak, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy, and at night, he is like a thief.

  • Prov 10:4
    72%

    4Laziness leads to poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth.

  • Prov 28:22
    72%

    22A man with an evil eye hastens after wealth and does not consider that poverty will come upon him.

  • Prov 23:21
    71%

    21For the drunkard and the glutton will become poor, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.

  • Job 20:22
    71%

    22In the fullness of his plenty, he will be distressed; the hand of all who toil will come upon him.

  • Eccl 5:14
    71%

    14As everyone comes naked from their mother’s womb, so they depart naked as they came. They take nothing from their toil that they can carry in their hands.

  • Job 24:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    9They snatch the orphan from the breast and take the poor as a pledge.

    10They go about naked without clothing, and they carry sheaves while hungry.

  • Prov 13:23
    71%

    23An abundance of food may come from the land of the poor, but it is sometimes swept away for lack of justice.

  • Matt 24:43-44
    2 verses
    71%

    43But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.

    44So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

  • Prov 28:19
    71%

    19Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but the one who chases worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.

  • Job 15:21
    71%

    21Terrifying sounds are in his ears; in prosperity, the destroyer will come upon him.

  • Job 18:12
    70%

    12Hunger consumes his strength, and calamity is ready at his side.

  • Isa 17:14
    70%

    14In the evening, sudden terror! Before morning, they are no more. This is the fate of those who plunder us and the lot of those who pillage us.

  • Prov 28:3
    70%

    3A poor man who oppresses the needy is like a driving rain that leaves no food.

  • Luke 21:35
    70%

    35For it will come upon all who live on the face of the earth as a snare.

  • Prov 1:27
    70%

    27When your terror comes like a storm, and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.

  • Jas 5:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1Come now, you rich people, weep and wail over the miseries that are coming upon you.

    2Your wealth has rotted, and your clothes have become moth-eaten.

  • Prov 5:10
    70%

    10Lest strangers feast on your strength, and your hard-earned wealth end up in the house of a foreigner.

  • Mark 13:36
    70%

    36Otherwise, when he comes suddenly, he may find you sleeping.

  • Deut 24:12
    70%

    12If the person is poor, do not keep their pledge overnight.

  • Job 5:5
    70%

    5The hungry devour his harvest, even taking it from among thorns; the thirsty swallow his wealth.

  • Prov 13:7
    70%

    7One pretends to be rich yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor yet has great wealth.

  • Hag 1:6
    70%

    6You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but are never satisfied. You drink but never have enough to be filled. You put on clothes but are not warm. The one who earns wages earns them to put into a bag with holes.

  • Deut 28:29
    70%

    29At midday, you will grope around like a blind person in the dark. You will not prosper in your ways; you will be continually oppressed and robbed, with no one to save you.

  • Prov 24:10
    70%

    10If you falter in a day of trouble, your strength is small.

  • Mic 6:14
    70%

    14You will eat but not be satisfied, and your emptiness will remain within you. You will store up but not save, and what you do save, I will give over to the sword.

  • Eccl 5:12
    70%

    12I have seen a grievous evil under the sun: wealth hoarded to the harm of its owners.

  • Ezek 4:17
    70%

    17'In this way, they will lack bread and water, and they will be appalled at one another and waste away because of their iniquity.'

  • Amos 8:4
    70%

    4Hear this, you who trample on the needy and seek to destroy the poor of the land,

  • Job 4:5
    70%

    5But now it has come to you, and you are weary; it touches you, and you are troubled.

  • Prov 14:23
    70%

    23In all hard work there is profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.

  • Isa 14:30
    70%

    30The poorest of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety. But I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant will be slain.

  • Ezek 7:25
    69%

    25Anguish is coming! They will seek peace, but there will be none.

  • Prov 24:31
    69%

    31Thorns had grown all over it, the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.

  • Job 22:10
    69%

    10That is why snares are all around you, and sudden terror overwhelms you.

  • Ps 37:14
    69%

    14The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows to bring down the poor and the needy, to slaughter those whose ways are upright.