POVERTY

Passages on this topic · 12

• Proverbs 6:11

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

• Proverbs 10:15

  The rich man’s wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

• Proverbs 15:16

  Better is little, with the fear of Yahweh, than great treasure with trouble.

• Proverbs 16:8

  Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.

• Proverbs 20:13

  Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

• Proverbs 23:21

  for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

• Proverbs 24:33

  a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep;

• Proverbs 24:34

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

• Proverbs 28:19

  One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

• Proverbs 30:8

  Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;

• Proverbs 30:9

  lest I be full, deny you, and say, ‘Who is Yahweh?’ or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.

• Ecclesiastes 4:6

  Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.