Proverbs 6:11

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and your poverty will come like a robber, and your need like an armed man.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 24:34 : 34 and your poverty will come like a bandit, and your need like an armed robber.”
  • Prov 10:4 : 4 The one who is lazy becomes poor, but the one who works diligently becomes wealthy.
  • Prov 13:4 : 4 The appetite of the sluggard craves but gets nothing, but the desire of the diligent will be abundantly satisfied.
  • Prov 20:4 : 4 The sluggard will not plow during the planting season, so at harvest time he asks for grain but has 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 relax,

    34and your poverty will come like a bandit, and your need like an armed robber.”

  • Prov 6:9-10
    2 verses
    77%

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

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

  • Prov 22:16
    77%

    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.

  • Prov 10:15
    76%

    15The wealth of a rich person is like a fortified city, but the poor are brought to ruin by their poverty.

  • Prov 19:15
    74%

    15Laziness brings on a deep sleep, and the idle person will go hungry.

  • Prov 20:13
    73%

    13Do not love sleep, lest you become impoverished; open your eyes so that you might be satisfied with food.

  • Job 15:23-24
    2 verses
    73%

    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,

  • Prov 28:22
    73%

    22The stingy person hastens after riches and does not know that poverty will overtake him.

  • Job 5:5
    73%

    5The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty pant for their wealth.

  • Prov 13:7
    72%

    7There is one who pretends to be rich and yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor and yet possesses great wealth.

  • Hag 1:6
    72%

    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.’”

  • Prov 10:4
    72%

    4The one who is lazy becomes poor, but the one who works diligently becomes wealthy.

  • Prov 5:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10lest strangers devour your strength, and your labor benefit another man’s house.

    11And at the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are wasted away.

  • Prov 28:19
    72%

    19The one who works his land will be satisfied with food, but whoever chases daydreams will have his fill of poverty.

  • Prov 13:11
    72%

    11Wealth gained quickly will dwindle away, but the one who gathers it little by little will become rich.

  • Mic 6:14
    72%

    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.

  • Eccl 5:12-15
    4 verses
    72%

    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.

    13Materialism Thwarts Enjoyment of Life Here is a misfortune on earth that I have seen: Wealth hoarded by its owner to his own misery.

    14Then that wealth was lost through bad luck; although he fathered a son, he has nothing left to give him.

    15Just as he came forth from his mother’s womb, naked will he return as he came, and he will take nothing in his hand that he may carry away from his toil.

  • Prov 28:3
    71%

    3A poor person who oppresses the weak is like a driving rain without food.

  • Prov 23:21
    71%

    21because drunkards and gluttons become impoverished, and drowsiness clothes them with rags.

  • Job 18:12
    71%

    12Calamity is hungry for him, and misfortune is ready at his side.

  • Prov 13:23
    71%

    23Abundant food may come from the field of the poor, but it is swept away by injustice.

  • Job 20:22
    71%

    22In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress overtakes him. The full force of misery will come upon him.

  • Jas 5:1-2
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    71%

    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.

  • Prov 6:12
    71%

    12A worthless and wicked person walks around saying perverse things;

  • Job 15:21
    71%

    21Terrifying sounds fill his ears; in a time of peace marauders attack him.

  • Job 24:14
    71%

    14Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief.

  • Hab 2:7
    71%

    7Your creditors will suddenly attack; those who terrify you will spring into action, and they will rob you.

  • Jer 6:25
    71%

    25Do not go out into the countryside. Do not travel on the roads. For the enemy is there with sword in hand. They are spreading terror everywhere.”

  • Deut 28:29
    70%

    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.

  • Ps 37:14
    70%

    14Evil men draw their swords and prepare their bows, to bring down the oppressed and needy, and to slaughter those who are godly.

  • Prov 6:15
    70%

    15Therefore, his disaster will come suddenly; in an instant he will be broken, and there will be no remedy.

  • Prov 1:27
    70%

    27when what you dread comes like a whirlwind, and disaster strikes you like a devastating storm, when distressing trouble comes on you.

  • Job 5:16
    70%

    16Thus the poor have hope, and iniquity shuts its mouth.

  • Ezek 4:17
    70%

    17because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity.

  • 1 Tim 6:9
    70%

    9Those who long to be rich, however, stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

  • Amos 5:11
    70%

    11Therefore, because you make the poor pay taxes on their crops and exact a grain tax from them, you will not live in the houses you built with chiseled stone, nor will you drink the wine from the fine vineyards you planted.

  • Isa 47:11
    70%

    11Disaster will overtake you; you will not know how to charm it away. Destruction will fall on you; you will not be able to appease it. Calamity will strike you suddenly, before you recognize it.

  • Prov 28:27
    70%

    27The one who gives to the poor will not lack, but whoever shuts his eyes to them will receive many curses.

  • Eccl 10:18
    70%

    18Because of laziness the roof caves in, and because of idle hands the house leaks.

  • Job 22:10
    70%

    10That is why snares surround you, and why sudden fear terrifies you,

  • Amos 8:4
    70%

    4Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land.

  • Isa 17:14
    70%

    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!