Proverbs 6:11
Then poverty comes upon you as an evil traveller, and lack as a swift courier: but if you be diligent, your harvest shall arrive as a fountain, and poverty shall flee away as a bad courier.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
In Context
12A foolish man and a transgressor goes in ways that are not good.
Cross References
Proverbs 13:4Every slothful man desires, but the hands of the active are diligent.
Proverbs 20:4A sluggard when reproached is not ashamed: so also he who borrows corn in harvest.
Proverbs 24:33The sluggard says, I slumber a little, and I sleep a little, and for a little while I fold my arms across my breast.
Ecclesiastes 4:5The fool folds his hands together, and eats his own flesh.
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 →