34 and poverty will come on you like a thief
    and scarcity like an armed man.(A)

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34 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.

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34 (A)So shall your poverty come like [a]a prowler,
And your need like [b]an armed man.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 24:34 Lit. one who walks about
  2. Proverbs 24:34 Lit. a man with a shield