Proverbs 6:11

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 24:34 : 34 so your poverty will come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.
  • 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.
  • Prov 20:4 : 4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 24:33-34
    2 verses
    95%

    33a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep;

    34so your poverty will come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.

  • Prov 6:9-10
    2 verses
    77%

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

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

  • Prov 22:16
    77%

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

  • Prov 10:15
    76%

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

  • Prov 19:15
    74%

    15Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.

  • Prov 20:13
    73%

    13Don't love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

  • Job 15:23-24
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    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 28:22
    73%

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

  • Job 5:5
    73%

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

  • Prov 13:7
    72%

    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
    72%

    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."

  • Prov 10:4
    72%

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

  • Prov 5:10-11
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    72%

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

    11You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

  • Prov 28:19
    72%

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

  • Prov 13:11
    72%

    11Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.

  • Mic 6:14
    72%

    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 5:12-15
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    72%

    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.

    13There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

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

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

  • Prov 28:3
    71%

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

  • Prov 23:21
    71%

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

  • Job 18:12
    71%

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

  • Prov 13:23
    71%

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

  • 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.

  • 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 6:12
    71%

    12A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth;

  • Job 15:21
    71%

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

  • Job 24:14
    71%

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

  • Hab 2:7
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    7Won't your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?

  • Jer 6:25
    71%

    25Don't go forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy, [and] terror, are on every side.

  • 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.

  • Ps 37:14
    70%

    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.

  • Prov 6:15
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    15Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

  • 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.

  • Job 5:16
    70%

    16So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

  • Ezek 4:17
    70%

    17that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.

  • 1 Tim 6:9
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    9But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

  • Amos 5:11
    70%

    11Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

  • Isa 47:11
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    11Therefore evil will come on you; you won't know when it dawns: and mischief will fall on you; you will not be able to put it away: and desolation shall come on you suddenly, which you don't know.

  • Prov 28:27
    70%

    27One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

  • Eccl 10:18
    70%

    18By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

  • Job 22:10
    70%

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

  • Amos 8:4
    70%

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

  • Isa 17:14
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    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.