OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 34

Proverbs 24:34

so your poverty will come as a robber

and your want as an armed man.

THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE

Proverbs 24:34 in context

Proverbs 24:31–34

Behold, it was all grown over with thorns.

Its surface was covered with nettles,

and its stone wall was broken down.

Then I saw, and considered well.

I saw, and received instruction:

a little sleep, a little slumber,

a little folding of the hands to sleep,

Selected verse

so your poverty will come as a robber

and your want as an armed man.

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