◄ Proverbs 6:11 {12} ►
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Good News Translation
But while he sleeps, poverty will attack him 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, everything is gone, as though it had been taken by an armed robber.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
A man that is an apostate, an unprofitable man, walketh with a perverse mouth,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A man that is an apostate, an unprofitable man, walketh with a perverse mouth,

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.

Proverbs 20:4 Because of the cold the sluggard would not plough: he shall beg therefore in the summer, and it shall not be given him.

Context
Warnings Against Foolishness
…10And 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. 11A man that is an apostate, an unprofitable man, walketh with a perverse mouth,12He winketh with the eyes, presseth with the foot, speaketh with the finger.…
Cross References
Proverbs 23:21
Because they that give themselves to drinking, and that club together, shall be consumed: and drowsiness shall be clothed with rags.

Proverbs 24:34
And poverty shall come to thee as a runner, and beggary as an armed man.

Proverbs 6:10
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