Proverbs 24:34

KJV1611 – Modern English

So shall your poverty come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.

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  • Prov 10:4 : 4 He becomes poor who deals with a slack hand, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.
  • Prov 13:4 : 4 The soul of the sluggard desires and has nothing, but the soul of the diligent shall be made rich.

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 sleep:

    11So shall your poverty come upon you like a traveler, and your need like an armed man.

  • Prov 24:33
    82%

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

  • Prov 22:16
    75%

    16He who oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he who gives to the rich, shall surely come to want.

  • Prov 10:15
    75%

    15The rich man's wealth is his strong city, the destruction of the poor is their poverty.

  • Job 24:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

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

    5Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, rising early for prey; the wilderness yields food for them and for their children.

  • Job 15:23-24
    2 verses
    73%

    23He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

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

  • Prov 20:13
    73%

    13Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

  • Prov 19:15
    72%

    15Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

  • Job 24:14
    72%

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

  • Prov 10:4
    72%

    4He becomes poor who deals with a slack hand, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

  • Prov 28:22
    72%

    22He who hastens to be rich has an evil eye and does not consider that poverty shall come upon him.

  • Prov 23:21
    71%

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

  • Job 20:22
    71%

    22In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in distress; every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

  • Eccl 5:14
    71%

    14But those riches perish through misfortune, and he begets a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

  • Job 24:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

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

    10They make him go naked without clothing and take away the sheaf from the hungry;

  • Prov 13:23
    71%

    23Much food is in the tillage of the poor, but there is that which is destroyed for lack of judgment.

  • Matt 24:43-44
    2 verses
    71%

    43But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.

    44Therefore you also be ready, for in an hour you do not expect the Son of Man will come.

  • Prov 28:19
    71%

    19He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who follows vain persons shall have poverty enough.

  • Job 15:21
    71%

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

  • Job 18:12
    70%

    12His strength shall be weakened by hunger, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

  • Isa 17:14
    70%

    14And behold, at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of those who spoil us, and the lot of those who rob us.

  • Prov 28:3
    70%

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

  • Luke 21:35
    70%

    35For as a snare shall it come on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth.

  • Prov 1:27
    70%

    27When your fear comes like desolation, and your destruction comes like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come upon you.

  • Jas 5:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1Come now, you rich men, weep and wail for your miseries that shall come upon you.

    2Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.

  • Prov 5:10
    70%

    10Lest strangers be filled with your wealth, and your labors be in the house of a stranger;

  • Mark 13:36
    70%

    36Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

  • Deut 24:12
    70%

    12And if the man is poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge:

  • Job 5:5
    70%

    5Whose harvest the hungry devour, and take it even out of the thorns, and the thief swallows up their substance.

  • Prov 13:7
    70%

    7There is one who makes himself rich, yet has nothing; there is one who makes himself poor, yet has great riches.

  • Hag 1:6
    70%

    6You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but do not have enough; you drink, but are not filled; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes.

  • Deut 28:29
    70%

    29And you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and you shall be only oppressed and plundered evermore, and no man shall save you.

  • Prov 24:10
    70%

    10If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.

  • Mic 6:14
    70%

    14You shall eat, but not be satisfied; hunger shall be in your midst; you shall take hold, but shall not deliver; and what you deliver I will give up to the sword.

  • Eccl 5:12
    70%

    12The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

  • Ezek 4:17
    70%

    17That they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and waste away for their iniquity.

  • Amos 8:4
    70%

    4Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land fail,

  • Job 4:5
    70%

    5But now it has come upon you, and you faint; it touches you, and you are troubled.

  • Prov 14:23
    70%

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

  • Isa 14:30
    70%

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

  • Ezek 7:25
    69%

    25Destruction comes; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.

  • Prov 24:31
    69%

    31And, behold, it was all overgrown with thorns, its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.

  • Job 22:10
    69%

    10Therefore snares are all around you, and sudden fear troubles you;

  • Ps 37:14
    69%

    14The wicked have drawn the sword and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay those who are of upright conduct.