Parallel Verses
Amplified
So your poverty will come like an approaching prowler who walks [slowly, but surely]
And your need [will come] like an armed man [making you helpless].
New American Standard Bible
And your need like
King James Version
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Holman Bible
your need, like a bandit.
International Standard Version
and your poverty will come on you like a bandit and your desperation like an armed man.
A Conservative Version
so thy poverty shall come as a robber, and thy want as an armed man.
American Standard Version
So shall thy poverty come as a robber, And thy want as an armed man.
Bible in Basic English
Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man
Darby Translation
So shall thy poverty come as a roving plunderer, and thy penury as an armed man.
Julia Smith Translation
And thy poverty came as he going, and thy want as a man of the shield.
King James 2000
So shall your poverty come upon you like a vagabond, and your want like an armed man.
Lexham Expanded Bible
like a {robber} shall your poverty come, and what you lack like an armed man.
Modern King James verseion
so shall your poverty come as one who travels, and your need like an armed man.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
so shall poverty come unto thee as one that travaileth by the way, and necessity like a weaponed man.
NET Bible
and your poverty will come like a robber, and your need like an armed man.
New Heart English Bible
so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.
The Emphasized Bible
So shall come in, as a highwayman, thy poverty, and, thy want, as one armed with a shield.
Webster
So shall thy poverty come as one that traveleth, and thy want as an armed man.
World English Bible
so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.
Youngs Literal Translation
And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man.
Themes
Early rising » Neglect of, leads to poverty
Poverty » Contributing causes of sinful » Indolence
Interlinear
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 6:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Against Sloth
10
“Yet a little sleep, a little slumber,
A little folding of the hands to lie down and rest”—
So your poverty will come like an approaching prowler who walks [slowly, but surely]
And your need [will come] like an armed man [making you helpless].
A worthless person, a wicked man,
Is one who walks with a perverse (corrupt, vulgar) mouth.
Cross References
Proverbs 24:34
Then your poverty will come as a robber,
And your want like an armed man.
Proverbs 10:4
Poor is he who works with a negligent and idle hand,
But the hand of the diligent makes him rich.
Proverbs 13:4
The soul (appetite) of the lazy person craves and gets nothing [for lethargy overcomes ambition],
But the soul (appetite) of the diligent [who works willingly] is rich and abundantly supplied.
Proverbs 20:4
The lazy man does not plow when the winter [planting] season arrives;
So he begs at the [next] harvest and has nothing [to reap].