11and poverty will come on you like a bandit and scarcity like an armed man.


In Context

8 yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.

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

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

11 and poverty will come on you like a bandit and scarcity like an armed man.

12 A scoundrel and villain, who goes about with a corrupt mouth,

13 who winks with his eye, signals with his feet and motions with his fingers,

Proverbs 6:11 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:11So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

6:11And want shall come upon thee, as a traveller, and poverty as a man armed. But if thou be diligent, thy harvest shall come as a fountain, and want shall flee far from thee.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

6:11So shall thy poverty come as a robber, And thy want as an armed man.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:11So shall thy poverty come as a roving plunderer, and thy penury as an armed man.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

6:11So shall thy poverty come as a robber, and thy want as an armed man.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:11So shall thy poverty come as one that traveleth, and thy want as an armed man.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:11so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

6:11And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:11So shall your poverty come as one that travels, and your want as an armed man.