Proverbes 6:11

La Bible Ostervald

Et la pauvreté viendra comme un coureur, et la disette comme un homme armé.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Et ta pauvreté viendra comme un passant; et ta disette, comme un soldat.

Darby's French Translation
et ta pauvreté viendra comme un voyageur, et ton dénuement comme un homme armé.

Louis Segond (1910)
Et la pauvreté te surprendra, comme un rôdeur, Et la disette, comme un homme en armes.

Bible Verse Review
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Proverbs 10:4, Proverbs 13:4, Proverbs 20:4

Reciprocal: Job 15:24 - as a king Job 17:3 - strike Proverbs 6:4 - General Proverbs 13:25 - the belly Ecclesiastes 4:5 - fool

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth,.... Either swiftly and suddenly, as a traveller makes haste to get to his journey's end, and comes upon his family or friends at an unawares; or though he moves gradually, by slow paces and silent steps, yet surely: and so it signifies that poverty should come upon the sluggard very quickly, and before he was aware: and though it might come by degrees, yet it would certainly come;

and thy want as an armed man; or, "thy wants as a man of shield" u: denoting many wants that should come rushing in one upon another, like a man armed with shield and buckler; appearing with great terror and force, not to be resisted. It denotes the unavoidableness of being brought into penury and want by sloth, and the terribleness of such a condition. The Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions, add,

"but if thou art not slothful, thy harvest shall come as a fountain (as the inundation of a fountain, Arabic); but want shall flee as an evil racer (as an evil man, Arabic; far from thee, Vulgate Latin):''

but this is not in the Hebrew text.

u כאיש מנן "tanquam vir clypei", Montanus; "vir clypeatus", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, &c.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 6:11. So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth — That is, with slow, but surely approaching steps.

Thy want as an armed man. — That is, with irresistible fury; and thou art not prepared to oppose it. The Vulgate, Septuagint, and Arabic add the following clause to this verse: -

"But if thou wilt be diligent, thy harvest shall be as a fountain; and poverty shall flee far away from thee."

It is also thus in the Old MS. Bible: If forsothe unslow thou shul ben; shul comen as a welle thi rip; and nede fer shal fleen fro thee.