Poverty

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• I will take care of you there, for there are still five years of famine ahead of us. Otherwise you and your household will come to utter poverty.' " - Genesis 45:11



• "If any of your Israelite relatives fall into poverty and cannot support themselves, support them as you would a resident foreigner and allow them to live with you. - Leviticus 25:35



• Another person dies in bitter poverty, never having tasted the good life. - Job 21:25



• and poverty will pounce on you like a bandit; scarcity will attack you like an armed robber. - Proverbs 6:11



• For a prostitute will bring you to poverty, and sleeping with another man's wife may cost you your very life. - Proverbs 6:26



• The wealth of the rich is their fortress; the poverty of the poor is their calamity. - Proverbs 10:15



• If you ignore criticism, you will end in poverty and disgrace; if you accept criticism, you will be honored. - Proverbs 13:18



• Work brings profit, but mere talk leads to poverty! - Proverbs 14:23



• Wealth makes many "friends"; poverty drives them away. - Proverbs 19:4



• If you love sleep, you will end in poverty. Keep your eyes open, and there will be plenty to eat! - Proverbs 20:13



• Good planning and hard work lead to prosperity, but hasty shortcuts lead to poverty. - Proverbs 21:5



• A person who gets ahead by oppressing the poor or by showering gifts on the rich will end in poverty. - Proverbs 22:16



• for they are on their way to poverty. Too much sleep clothes a person with rags. - Proverbs 23:21



• and poverty will pounce on you like a bandit; scarcity will attack you like an armed robber. - Proverbs 24:34



• Rich people picture themselves as wise, but their real poverty is evident to the poor. - Proverbs 28:11

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^{New Living Translation Bible used with permission Tyndale House Publishers.}