Poverty

A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Poverty’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

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Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

Proverbs 6:11 OT

so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.
Proverbs 10:15 OT

The rich man’s wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
Proverbs 15:16 OT

Better is little, with the fear of Yahweh, than great treasure with trouble.
Proverbs 16:8 OT

Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.
Ecclesiastes 4:6 OT

Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.
Proverbs 20:13 OT

Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
Proverbs 23:21 OT

for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
Proverbs 24:33 OT

a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep,
Proverbs 24:34 OT

so your poverty will come as a robber and your want as an armed man.
Proverbs 28:19 OT

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 OT

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 OT

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.