THEOSISProverbs 6:11Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And 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.
וּבָֽא־כִמְהַלֵּ֥ךְ רֵאשֶׁ֑ךָ וּ֝מַחְסֹֽרְךָ֗ כְּאִ֣ישׁ מָגֵֽן׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 13:4The sluggard willeth, and willeth not: but the soul of them that work, shall be made fat.
- Prov 10:4The slothful hand hath wrought poverty: but the hand of the industrious getteth riches. He that trusteth to lies feedeth the winds: and the same runneth after birds, that fly away.
- Prov 20:4Because of the cold the sluggard would not plough: he shall beg therefore in the summer, and it shall not be given him.
- Prov 24:34And poverty shall come to thee as a runner, and beggary as an armed man.