Bible verse
and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and need like a bandit.
Proverbs 6:11 · BSB
The verses around it, from Proverbs 6.
7 Without a commander, without an overseer or ruler,
8 it prepares its provisions in summer; it gathers its food at harvest.
9 How long will you lie there, O slacker? 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 upon you like a robber, and need like a bandit.
12 A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth,
13 winking his eyes, speaking with his feet, and pointing with his fingers.
14 With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord.
15 Therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in an instant he will be shattered beyond recovery.
KJV
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
ASV
So shall thy poverty come as a robber, And thy want as an armed man.
ERV
So shall thy poverty come as a robber, and thy want as an armed man.
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