Proverbs 24:34

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And thy poverty hath come `as' a traveller, And thy want as an armed man!

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 10:4 : 4 Poor `is' he who is working -- a slothful hand, And the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
  • Prov 13:4 : 4 The soul of the slothful is desiring, and hath not. And the soul of the diligent is made fat.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 6:10-11
    2 verses
    95%

    10A little sleep, a little slumber, A little clasping of the hands to rest,

    11And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man.

  • 33A little sleep -- a little slumber -- A little folding of the hands to lie down.

  • 16He is oppressing the poor to multiply to him, He is giving to the rich -- only to want.

  • 15The wealth of the rich `is' his strong city, The ruin of the poor `is' their poverty.

  • Job 24:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

    4They turn aside the needy from the way, Together have hid the poor of the earth.

    5Lo, wild asses in a wilderness, They have gone out about their work, Seeking early for prey, A mixture for himself -- food for young ones.

  • Job 15:23-24
    2 verses
    73%

    23He is wandering for bread -- `Where `is' it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness.

    24Terrify him do adversity and distress, They prevail over him As a king ready for a boaster.

  • 13Love not sleep, lest thou become poor, Open thine eyes -- be satisfied `with' bread.

  • 15Sloth causeth deep sleep to fall, And an indolent soul doth hunger.

  • 14At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy, And in the night he is as a thief.

  • 4Poor `is' he who is working -- a slothful hand, And the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

  • 22Troubled for wealth `is' the man `with' an evil eye, And he knoweth not that want doth meet him.

  • 21For the quaffer and glutton become poor, And drowsiness clotheth with rags.

  • 22In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him.

  • 14And that wealth hath been lost in an evil business, and he hath begotten a son and there is nothing in his hand!

  • Job 24:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    9They take violently away From the breast the orphan, And on the poor they lay a pledge.

    10Naked, they have gone without clothing, And hungry -- have taken away a sheaf.

  • 23Abundance of food -- the tillage of the poor, And substance is consumed without judgment.

  • 71%

    43and this know, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief doth come, he had watched, and not suffered his house to be broken through;

    44because of this also ye, become ye ready, because in what hour ye do not think, the Son of Man doth come.

  • 19Whoso is tilling his ground is satisfied `with' bread, And whoso is pursuing vanity, Is filled `with' poverty.

  • 21A fearful voice `is' in his ears, In peace doth a destroyer come to him.

  • 12Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side.

  • 14At even-time, lo, terror, before morning it is not, This `is' the portion of our spoilers, And the lot of our plunderers!

  • 3A man -- poor and oppressing the weak, `Is' a sweeping rain, and there is no bread.

  • 35for as a snare it shall come on all those dwelling on the face of all the land,

  • 27When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress.

  • Jas 5:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon `you';

    2your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten;

  • 10Lest strangers be filled `with' thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger,

  • 36lest, having come suddenly, he may find you sleeping;

  • 12`And if he is a poor man, thou dost not lie down with his pledge;

  • 5Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth.

  • 7There is who is making himself rich, and hath nothing, Who is making himself poor, and wealth `is' abundant.

  • 6Ye have sown much, and brought in little, To eat, and not to satiety, To drink, and not to drunkenness, To clothe, and none hath heat, And he who is hiring himself out, Is hiring himself for a bag pierced through.

  • 29and thou hast been gropling at noon, as the blind gropeth in darkness; and thou dost not cause thy ways to prosper; and thou hast been only oppressed and plundered all the days, and there is no saviour.

  • 10Thou hast shewed thyself weak in a day of adversity, Straitened is thy power,

  • 14Thou -- thou eatest, and thou art not satisfied, And thy pit `is' in thy midst, And thou removest, and dost not deliver, And that which thou deliverest, to a sword I give.

  • 12Sweet `is' the sleep of the labourer whether he eat little or much; and the sufficiency of the wealthy is not suffering him to sleep.

  • 17so that they lack bread and water, and have been astonished one with another, and been consumed in their iniquity.

  • 4Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land,

  • 5But now, it cometh in unto thee, And thou art weary; It striketh unto thee, and thou art troubled.

  • 23In all labour there is advantage, And a thing of the lips `is' only to want.

  • 30And delighted have the first-born of the poor, And the needy in confidence lie down, And I have put to death with famine thy root, And thy remnant it slayeth.

  • 25Destruction hath come, And they have sought peace, and there is none.

  • 31And lo, it hath gone up -- all of it -- thorns! Covered its face have nettles, And its stone wall hath been broken down.

  • 10Therefore round about thee `are' snares, And trouble thee doth fear suddenly.

  • 14A sword have the wicked opened, And they have trodden their bow, To cause to fall the poor and needy, To slaughter the upright of the way.