Proverbs 24:34

Authorized King James Version (1611)

So shall thy poverty come [as] one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 10:4 : 4 ¶ He becometh poor that dealeth [with] a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
  • Prov 13:4 : 4 ¶ The soul of the sluggard desireth, and [hath] nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

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  • Prov 6:10-11
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    95%

    10 [Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

    11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

  • Prov 24:33
    82%

    33 [Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

  • Prov 22:16
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    16 ¶ He that oppresseth the poor to increase his [riches, and] he that giveth to the rich, [shall] surely [come] to want.

  • Prov 10:15
    75%

    15 ¶ The rich man's wealth [is] his strong city: the destruction of the poor [is] their poverty.

  • Job 24:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

    4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

    5 Behold, [as] wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness [yieldeth] food for them [and] for [their] children.

  • Job 15:23-24
    2 verses
    73%

    23 He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where [is it]? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

    24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

  • Prov 20:13
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    13 ¶ Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, [and] thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

  • Prov 19:15
    72%

    15 ¶ Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

  • Job 24:14
    72%

    14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

  • Prov 10:4
    72%

    4 ¶ He becometh poor that dealeth [with] a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

  • Prov 28:22
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    22 ¶ He that hasteth to be rich [hath] an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.

  • Prov 23:21
    71%

    21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe [a man] with rags.

  • Job 20:22
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    22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

  • Eccl 5:14
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    14 But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and [there is] nothing in his hand.

  • Job 24:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

    10 They cause [him] to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf [from] the hungry;

  • Prov 13:23
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    23 ¶ Much food [is in] the tillage of the poor: but there is [that is] destroyed for want of judgment.

  • Matt 24:43-44
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    71%

    43 ‹But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.›

    44 ‹Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.›

  • Prov 28:19
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    19 ¶ He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain [persons] shall have poverty enough.

  • Job 15:21
    71%

    21 A dreadful sound [is] in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

  • Job 18:12
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    12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction [shall be] ready at his side.

  • Isa 17:14
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    14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; [and] before the morning he [is] not. This [is] the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

  • Prov 28:3
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    3 ¶ A poor man that oppresseth the poor [is like] a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.

  • Luke 21:35
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  • Prov 1:27
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    27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

  • Jas 5:1-2
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    1 ¶ Go to now, [ye] rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon [you].

    2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

  • Prov 5:10
    70%

    10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours [be] in the house of a stranger;

  • Mark 13:36
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    36 ‹Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.›

  • Deut 24:12
    70%

    12 And if the man [be] poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:

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    5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

  • Prov 13:7
    70%

    7 ¶ There is that maketh himself rich, yet [hath] nothing: [there is] that maketh himself poor, yet [hath] great riches.

  • Hag 1:6
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    6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages [to put it] into a bag with holes.

  • Deut 28:29
    70%

    29 And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save [thee].

  • Prov 24:10
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    10 ¶ [If] thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength [is] small.

  • Mic 6:14
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    14 Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down [shall be] in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and [that] which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword.

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    70%

    12 The sleep of a labouring man [is] sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

  • Ezek 4:17
    70%

    17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.

  • Amos 8:4
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    4 ¶ Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

  • Job 4:5
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    5 But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

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  • Isa 14:30
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    30 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.

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    25 Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and [there shall be] none.

  • Prov 24:31
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    31 And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, [and] nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.

  • Job 22:10
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    10 Therefore snares [are] round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;

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    14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, [and] to slay such as be of upright conversation.