Proverbs 6:11
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.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
In Context
10You will sleep a little, you will slumber a little, you will fold your hands a little to sleep,
12An apostate man, a harmful man, walks with a perverse mouth;
Cross References
Proverbs 13:4The lazy one is willing and then not willing. But the soul of he who labors shall be made fat.
Proverbs 20:4Because of the cold, the lazy one was not willing to plough. Therefore, in the summer, he will beg, and it will not be given to him.
Proverbs 24:33You will sleep a little,” I said. “You will slumber briefly. You will fold your hands a little, so as to rest.
Ecclesiastes 4:5The foolish man folds his hands together, and he consumes his own flesh, saying:
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 6:7-12
Slothfulness Reproved. 6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: 7 Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, 8 Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. 9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? 10 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: 11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. Solomon, in these verses, addresses himself to the sluggard who loves… Read the whole commentary →