So shall your poverty come as one that travels, and your want as an armed man.
So shall your poverty come as one that travels, and your want as an armed man.
So shall thy poverty come as a robber, And thy want as an armed man.
Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man
So shall thy poverty come as one that traveleth, and thy want as an armed man.
so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.
So shall thy poverty come as a robber, and thy want as an armed man.
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.
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.
6:11 Travelleth - Swiftly and unexpectedly.Armed man - Irresistibly.