Proverbs 6:11

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 24:34 : 34 and poverty will come upon you like a robber and need like an armed man.
  • 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.
  • Prov 20:4 : 4 The sluggard does not plow in the winter; at harvest time he looks for something, but finds nothing.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 24:33-34
    2 verses
    95%

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

    34and poverty will come upon you like a robber and need like an armed man.

  • Prov 6:9-10
    2 verses
    77%

    9How long will you lie there, sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep?

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

  • Prov 22:16
    77%

    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
    76%

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

  • Prov 19:15
    74%

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

  • Prov 20:13
    73%

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

  • 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 28:22
    73%

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

  • Job 5:5
    73%

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

  • Prov 13:7
    72%

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

  • Hag 1:6
    72%

    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.

  • Prov 10:4
    72%

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

  • Prov 5:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

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

    11At the end of your life you will groan, when your flesh and body are spent.

  • Prov 28:19
    72%

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

  • Prov 13:11
    72%

    11Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.

  • Mic 6:14
    72%

    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 5:12-15
    4 verses
    72%

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

    13Or wealth lost through some misfortune, so that when they have children, there is nothing left for them to inherit.

    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.

    15This too is a grievous evil: As a man comes, so he departs, and what does he gain from all his labor for the wind?

  • Prov 28:3
    71%

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

  • Prov 23:21
    71%

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

  • Job 18:12
    71%

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

  • 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.

  • Job 20:22
    71%

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

  • Jas 5:1-2
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    71%

    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 6:12
    71%

    12A worthless person, a man of wickedness, walks with a corrupt mouth,

  • Job 15:21
    71%

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

  • Job 24:14
    71%

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

  • Hab 2:7
    71%

    7Will not your creditors suddenly arise? Will not those who make you tremble wake up? Then you will become their plunder.

  • Jer 6:25
    71%

    25Do not go out into the fields or walk on the roads, for the enemy has a sword; there is terror on every side.

  • 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.

  • Ps 37:14
    70%

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

  • Prov 6:15
    70%

    15Therefore his disaster will come suddenly; in an instant, he will be broken beyond healing.

  • Prov 1:27
    70%

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

  • Job 5:16
    70%

    16So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.

  • 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.'

  • 1 Tim 6:9
    70%

    9But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

  • Amos 5:11
    70%

    11Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact a grain tax from them, though you have built houses of cut stone, you will not live in them; though you have planted delightful vineyards, you will not drink their wine.

  • Isa 47:11
    70%

    11But disaster will come upon you, and you will not know how to charm it away; calamity will fall upon you that you cannot ward off; and devastation will come upon you suddenly, without warning.

  • Prov 28:27
    70%

    27Whoever gives to the poor will lack nothing, but one who hides his eyes will receive many curses.

  • Eccl 10:18
    70%

    18Because of laziness, the roof sinks, and through idle hands, the house leaks.

  • Job 22:10
    70%

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

  • Amos 8:4
    70%

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

  • 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.