Proverbs 6:11
Modern Translations
New International Version
and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.

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

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

Berean Study Bible
and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and need like a bandit.

New American Standard Bible
Then your poverty will come in like a drifter, And your need like an armed man.

NASB 1995
Your poverty will come in like a vagabond And your need like an armed man.

NASB 1977
And your poverty will come in like a vagabond, And your need like an armed man.

Amplified Bible
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].

Christian Standard Bible
and your poverty will come like a robber, your need, like a bandit.

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

Contemporary English Version
Suddenly, everything is gone, as though it had been taken by an armed robber.

Good News Translation
But while he sleeps, poverty will attack him like an armed robber.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Then your poverty will come [to you]like a drifter, and your need will come [to you]like a bandit.

International Standard Version
and your poverty will come on you like a bandit and your desperation like an armed man.

NET Bible
and your poverty will come like a robber, and your need like an armed man.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

New King James Version
So shall your poverty come on you like a prowler, And your need like an armed man.

King James 2000 Bible
So shall your poverty come upon you like a vagabond, and your want like an armed man.

New Heart English Bible
so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.

World English Bible
so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as 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.

A Faithful Version
So shall your poverty come as one who travels, and your want like 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.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Therefore thy pouertie commeth as one that trauaileth by the way, and thy necessitie like an armed man.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
So shall pouertie come vnto thee as one that trauayleth by the way, and necessitie like a weaponed man.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
so shal pouerte come vnto the as one yt trauayleth by the waye, & necessite like a wapened man.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And your poverty has come as a traveler, "" 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.

Smith's Literal Translation
And thy poverty came as he going, and thy want as a man of the shield.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Catholic Public Domain Version
and then destitution will meet with you, like a traveler, and poverty, like an armed man. Yet truly, if you would be diligent, then your harvest will arrive like a fountain, and destitution will flee far from you.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Poverty will come upon you and want will overtake you like an athletic man.

Lamsa Bible
And then poverty shall come upon you, and distress shall overtake you; become a successful man.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
So shall thy poverty come as a runner, And thy want as an armed man.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Then poverty comes upon thee as an evil traveller, and want as a swift courier: but if thou be diligent, thine harvest shall arrive as a fountain, and poverty shall flee away as a bad courier.
















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