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So shall your poverty come as a robber, And your want as an armed man.
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Sudden and Irresistible Ruin
Commentators explain that the poverty resulting from laziness is not a slow creep but a sudden and overwhelming event. John Gill clarifies the imagery: poverty comes 'swiftly and suddenly' like a robber, and want arrives 'irresistibly' like an armed man, leaving the lazy person with no defense.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
See the Proverbs 6:11 note.
19th Century
Anglican
As one that travelleth.— See above on Proverbs 6:11.
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
So shall your poverty come [as] one that travelleth Swiftly and suddenly, both in a temporal and spiritual sense; (<…
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