Proverbs 24:34
so your poverty will come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.
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10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
11 so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.
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33 a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep;
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16 Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.
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15 The rich man's wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
- Job 24:4-52 verses74%
4 They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
5 Behold, 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 15:23-242 verses73%
23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
24 Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
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13 Don't love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
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15 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.
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14 The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
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4 He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.
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22 A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn't know that poverty waits for him.
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21 for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
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22 In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him.
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14 Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.
- Job 24:9-102 verses71%
9 There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
10 So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
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23 An abundance of food is in poor people's fields, but injustice sweeps it away.
- Matt 24:43-442 verses71%
43 But 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.
44 Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don't expect, the Son of Man will come.
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19 One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.
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21 A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.
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12 His strength shall be famished. Calamity shall be ready at his side.
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14 At 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.
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3 A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.
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35 For it will come like a snare on all those who dwell on the surface of all the earth.
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27 when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come on you.
- Jas 5:1-22 verses70%
1 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
2 Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
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10 lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man's house.
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36 lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping.
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12 If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;
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5 whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.
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7 There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.
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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 robbed always, and there shall be none to save you.
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10 If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.
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14 You 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.
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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.
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17 that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
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4 Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
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5 But now it is come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.
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23 In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.
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30 The 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.
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25 Destruction comes; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.
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31 Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.
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10 Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,
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14 The 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.