Proverbs 6:11

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Prov 24:34 : 34 So shall your poverty come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.
  • 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.
  • Prov 20:4 : 4 The sluggard will not plow because of the cold; therefore he shall beg during harvest, and have nothing.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 24:33-34
    2 verses
    95%

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

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

  • Prov 6:9-10
    2 verses
    77%

    9 How long will you sleep, O sluggard? when will you arise out of your sleep?

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

  • Prov 22:16
    77%

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

  • Prov 10:15
    76%

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

  • Prov 19:15
    74%

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

  • Prov 20:13
    73%

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

  • Job 15:23-24
    2 verses
    73%

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

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

  • Prov 28:22
    73%

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

  • Job 5:5
    73%

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

  • Prov 13:7
    72%

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

  • Hag 1:6
    72%

    6 You 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.

  • Prov 10:4
    72%

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

  • Prov 5:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

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

    11 And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

  • Prov 28:19
    72%

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

  • Prov 13:11
    72%

    11 Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished, but he who gathers by labor shall increase.

  • Mic 6:14
    72%

    14 You 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 5:12-15
    4 verses
    72%

    12 The 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.

    13 There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners to their hurt.

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

    15 As he came from his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labor which he may carry away in his hand.

  • Prov 28:3
    71%

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

  • Prov 23:21
    71%

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

  • Job 18:12
    71%

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

  • Prov 13:23
    71%

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

  • Job 20:22
    71%

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

  • Jas 5:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

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

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

  • Prov 6:12
    71%

    12 A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth.

  • Job 15:21
    71%

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

  • Job 24:14
    71%

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

  • Hab 2:7
    71%

    7 Shall they not rise up suddenly that will bite you, and awake that will vex you, and you shall be for plunder to them?

  • Jer 6:25
    71%

    25 Do not go forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.

  • Deut 28:29
    70%

    29 And 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.

  • Ps 37:14
    70%

    14 The 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.

  • Prov 6:15
    70%

    15 Therefore his calamity shall come suddenly; suddenly he shall be broken without remedy.

  • Prov 1:27
    70%

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

  • Job 5:16
    70%

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

  • Ezek 4:17
    70%

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

  • 1 Tim 6:9
    70%

    9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

  • Amos 5:11
    70%

    11 Since you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.

  • Isa 47:11
    70%

    11 Therefore evil shall come upon you; you shall not know from where it rises. Trouble shall fall upon you; you shall not be able to put it off. Desolation shall come upon you suddenly, which you shall not know.

  • Prov 28:27
    70%

    27 He who gives to the poor shall not lack, but he who hides his eyes will have many curses.

  • Eccl 10:18
    70%

    18 By much slothfulness the building decays; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

  • Job 22:10
    70%

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

  • Amos 8:4
    70%

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

  • Isa 17:14
    70%

    14 And 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.