Proverbs 6:11 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹¹So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

Proverbs 6:11 —

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Proverbs 13:4
The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
Proverbs 10:4
He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
Proverbs 20:4
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
Proverbs 24:34
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-11)

Solomon, in these verses, addresses himself to the sluggard who loves his ease, lives in idleness, minds no business, sticks to nothing, brings nothing to pass, and in a particular manner is careless in the business of religion. Slothfulness is as sure a way to poverty, though not so short a way, as rash suretiship. He speaks here to the sluggard, I. By way of instruction, Ps. 6:6-8. He sends him…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 11)

11. and the fruits of their self-indulgence and indolence presented. as ... travelleth--literally, “one who walks backwards and forwards,” that is, a highwayman. armed man--that is, one prepared to destroy.