Proverbs 24:34

World English Bible (2000)

so your poverty will come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 10:4 : 4 He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.
  • Prov 13:4 : 4 The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

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 your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as 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%

    16Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

  • 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 all hide themselves.

    5Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread 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.

    24Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

  • Prov 20:13
    73%

    13Don't 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. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.

  • Job 24:14
    72%

    14The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

  • Prov 10:4
    72%

    4He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.

  • Prov 28:22
    72%

    22A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn't know that poverty waits for him.

  • Prov 23:21
    71%

    21for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

  • Job 20:22
    71%

    22In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him.

  • Eccl 5:14
    71%

    14Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.

  • Job 24:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    9There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

    10So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.

  • Prov 13:23
    71%

    23An abundance of food is in poor people's fields, but injustice sweeps it away.

  • Matt 24:43-44
    2 verses
    71%

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

    44Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don't expect, the Son of Man will come.

  • Prov 28:19
    71%

    19One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

  • Job 15:21
    71%

    21A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.

  • Job 18:12
    70%

    12His strength shall be famished. Calamity shall be ready at his side.

  • Isa 17:14
    70%

    14At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.

  • Prov 28:3
    70%

    3A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.

  • Luke 21:35
    70%

    35For it will come like a snare on all those who dwell on the surface of all the earth.

  • Prov 1:27
    70%

    27when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come on you.

  • Jas 5:1-2
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    1Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.

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

  • Prov 5:10
    70%

    10lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man's house.

  • Mark 13:36
    70%

    36lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping.

  • Deut 24:12
    70%

    12If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;

  • Job 5:5
    70%

    5whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

  • Prov 13:7
    70%

    7There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.

  • Hag 1:6
    70%

    6You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don't have enough. You drink, but you aren't filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it."

  • 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 robbed always, and there shall be none to save you.

  • Prov 24:10
    70%

    10If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.

  • Mic 6:14
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    14You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your humiliation will be in your midst. You will store up, but not save; and that which you save 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 want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.

  • Amos 8:4
    70%

    4Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

  • Job 4:5
    70%

    5But now it is come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.

  • Prov 14:23
    70%

    23In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

  • Isa 14:30
    70%

    30The firstborn of the poor will eat, and the needy will lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant will be killed.

  • Ezek 7:25
    69%

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

  • Prov 24:31
    69%

    31Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.

  • Job 22:10
    69%

    10Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,

  • Ps 37:14
    69%

    14The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright in the way.