Proverbs - 24:34

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34 so your poverty will come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.

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Explanation and meaning of Proverbs 24:34.

Differing Translations

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So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
And poverty shall come to thee as a runner, and beggary as an armed man.
So shall thy poverty come as a roving plunderer, and thy penury as an armed man.
So shall thy poverty come as one that traveleth; and thy want as an armed man.
And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man!
So shall your poverty come as one that travels; and your want as an armed man.
So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.
So shall thy poverty come as a runner, And thy want as an armed man.
And destitution will overtake you like a runner, and begging will overtake you like an armed man."

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth,.... Swiftly and suddenly, both in a temporal and spiritual sense; See Gill on Proverbs 6:11;
and thy want as an armed man; irresistibly. Here ends according to some the "second", according to others the "third" part of this book of Proverbs, another beginning with the following chapter.

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