Proverbs 24:34
Good News Translation
but while you are asleep, poverty will attack you like an armed robber.

New Revised Standard Version
and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want, like an armed warrior.

Contemporary English Version
Suddenly poverty hits you and everything is gone!

New American Bible
Then poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like a brigand.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And poverty shall come to thee as a runner, and beggary as an armed man.

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And poverty shall come to thee as a runner, and beggary as an armed man.

thy property

Proverbs 10:4 He that gathereth in the harvest, is a wise son: but he that snorteth in the summer, is the son of confusion.

Proverbs 13:4 The sluggard willeth, and willeth not: but the soul of them that work, shall be made fat.

armed man or a man of shield

Context
Further Sayings of the Wise
33Thou wilt sleep a little, said I, thou wilt slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little to rest. 34And poverty shall come to thee as a runner, and beggary as an armed man.
Cross References
Proverbs 6:11
A man that is an apostate, an unprofitable man, walketh with a perverse mouth,

Proverbs 24:33
Thou wilt sleep a little, said I, thou wilt slumber a little, thou wilt fold thy hands a little to rest.

Proverbs 25:1
These are also parables of Solomon, which the men of Ezechias, king of Juda, copied out.

Proverbs 24:33
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