Proverbs 6:11
and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and need like a bandit.
BSB
ASV
So shall thy poverty come as a robber, And thy want as an armed man.
KJV
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
"And poverty will come upon you like a traveler," etc. For poverty and misery are the ultimate punishment, in which the damned deserve nothing of wealth: they will come like a traveler, because unforeseen and sudden; like an armed man, because they cannot be conquered …
The similitude is drawn from the two sources of Eastern terror: the “traveler,” i. e., “the thief in the night,” coming suddenly to plunder; the “armed man,” literally “the man of the shield,” the armed robber. The habit of indolence is more fatally destructive than these marauders.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Proverbs 20:4The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.
leads to
Idle hands make one poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
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Proverbs 10:4Idle hands make one poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.
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The slacker craves yet has nothing, but the soul of the diligent is fully satisfied.
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.
The plans of the diligent bring plenty, as surely as haste leads to poverty.
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Proverbs 13:4The slacker craves yet has nothing, but the soul of the diligent is fully satisfied.
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The hand of the diligent will rule, but laziness ends in forced labor.
The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies lacks judgment.
For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge;