Proverbs 24:34
 Proverbs 24:34 
New International Version (©2011)
and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.

New Living Translation (©2007)
then poverty will pounce on you like a bandit; scarcity will attack you like an armed robber.

English Standard Version (©2001)
and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then your poverty will come as a robber And your want like an armed man.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
and your poverty will come like a robber, your need, like a bandit.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Then your poverty will come upon you like a robber, your need like an armed bandit.

NET Bible (©2006)
and your poverty will come like a bandit, and your need like an armed robber."

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
Poverty will walk before you, and want will overtake you like a man who is a runner.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Then your poverty will come like a drifter, and your need will come like a bandit.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
So shall your poverty come like a robber; and your want like an armed man.

American King James Version
So shall your poverty come as one that travels; and your want as an armed man.

American Standard Version
So shall thy poverty come as a robber, And thy want as an armed man.

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

Darby Bible Translation
So shall thy poverty come as a roving plunderer, and thy penury as an armed man.

English Revised Version
So shall thy poverty come as a robber; and thy want as an armed man.

Webster's Bible Translation
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 want as an armed man.

Young's Literal Translation
And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man!

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

24:30-34. See what a blessing the husbandman's calling is, and what a wilderness this earth would be without it. See what great difference there is in the management even of worldly affairs. Sloth and self-indulgence are the bane of all good. When we see fields overgrown with thorns and thistles, and the fences broken down, we see an emblem of the far more deplorable state of many souls. Every vile affection grows in men's hearts; yet they compose themselves to sleep. Let us show wisdom by doubling our diligence in every good thing.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth,.... Swiftly and suddenly, both in a temporal and spiritual sense; See Gill on Proverbs 6:11;

and thy want as an armed man; irresistibly. Here ends according to some the "second", according to others the "third" part of this book of Proverbs, another beginning with the following chapter.


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Further Sayings of the Wise
32Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked on it, and received instruction. 33Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: 34So shall your poverty come as one that travels; and your want as an armed man.

Proverbs 6:11 and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.
Proverbs 24:33 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest--
Proverbs 25:1 These are more proverbs of Solomon, compiled by the men of Hezekiah king of Judah: