Proverbs 24:34
and your poverty will come like a bandit, and your need like an armed robber.”
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10A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to relax,
11and your poverty will come like a robber, and your need like an armed man.
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33“A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to relax,
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16The one who oppresses the poor to increase his own gain and the one who gives to the rich– both end up only in poverty.
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15The wealth of a rich person is like a fortified city, but the poor are brought to ruin by their poverty.
- Job 24:4-52 verses74%
4They turn the needy from the pathway, and the poor of the land hide themselves together.
5Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they go out to their labor seeking diligently for food; the arid rift valley provides food for them and for their children.
- Job 15:23-242 verses73%
23he wanders about– food for vultures; he knows that the day of darkness is at hand.
24Distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him like a king ready to launch an attack,
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13Do not love sleep, lest you become impoverished; open your eyes so that you might be satisfied with food.
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15Laziness brings on a deep sleep, and the idle person will go hungry.
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14Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief.
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4The one who is lazy becomes poor, but the one who works diligently becomes wealthy.
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22The stingy person hastens after riches and does not know that poverty will overtake him.
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21because drunkards and gluttons become impoverished, and drowsiness clothes them with rags.
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22In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress overtakes him. The full force of misery will come upon him.
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14Then that wealth was lost through bad luck; although he fathered a son, he has nothing left to give him.
- Job 24:9-102 verses71%
9The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.
10They go about naked, without clothing, and go hungry while they carry the sheaves.
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23Abundant food may come from the field of the poor, but it is swept away by injustice.
- Matt 24:43-442 verses71%
43But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have been alert and would not have let his house be broken into.
44Therefore you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.
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19The one who works his land will be satisfied with food, but whoever chases daydreams will have his fill of poverty.
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21Terrifying sounds fill his ears; in a time of peace marauders attack him.
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12Calamity is hungry for him, and misfortune is ready at his side.
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14In the evening there is sudden terror; by morning they vanish. This is the fate of those who try to plunder us, the destiny of those who try to loot us!
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3A poor person who oppresses the weak is like a driving rain without food.
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35For it will overtake all who live on the face of the whole earth.
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27when what you dread comes like a whirlwind, and disaster strikes you like a devastating storm, when distressing trouble comes on you.
- Jas 5:1-22 verses70%
1Warning to the Rich Come now, you rich! Weep and cry aloud over the miseries that are coming on you.
2Your riches have rotted and your clothing has become moth-eaten.
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10lest strangers devour your strength, and your labor benefit another man’s house.
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36or else he might find you asleep when he returns suddenly.
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12If the person is poor you may not use what he gives you as security for a covering.
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5The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty pant for their wealth.
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7There is one who pretends to be rich and yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor and yet possesses great wealth.
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6You have planted much, but have harvested little. You eat, but are never filled. You drink, but are still thirsty. You put on clothes, but are not warm. Those who earn wages end up with holes in their money bags.’”
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29You will feel your way along at noon like the blind person does in darkness and you will not succeed in anything you do; you will be constantly oppressed and continually robbed, with no one to save you.
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10You have slacked off in the day of trouble– your strength is small!
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14You will eat, but not be satisfied. Even if you have the strength to overtake some prey, you will not be able to carry it away; if you do happen to carry away something, I will deliver it over to the sword.
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12The sleep of the laborer is pleasant– whether he eats little or much– but the wealth of the rich will not allow him to sleep.
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17because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity.
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4Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land.
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5But now the same thing comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are terrified.
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23In all hard work there is profit, but merely talking about it only brings poverty.
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30The poor will graze in my pastures; the needy will rest securely. But I will kill your root by famine; it will put to death all your survivors.
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25Terror is coming! They will seek peace, but find none.
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31I saw that thorns had grown up all over it, the ground was covered with weeds, and its stone wall was broken down.
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10That is why snares surround you, and why sudden fear terrifies you,
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14Evil men draw their swords and prepare their bows, to bring down the oppressed and needy, and to slaughter those who are godly.