From poverty and famine they are gaunt, They who gnaw at the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,

Then your poverty will come in like a drifter, And your need like an armed man.

The rich person’s wealth is his fortress, The ruin of the poor is their poverty.

There is one who scatters, and yet increases all the more, And there is one who withholds what is justly due, and yet it results only in poverty.

Poverty and shame will come to one who neglects discipline, But one who complies with rebuke will be honored.

In all labor there is profit, But mere talk leads only to poverty.

The plans of the diligent certainly lead to advantage, But everyone who is in a hurry certainly comes to poverty.

One who oppresses the poor to make more for himself, Or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.

For the heavy drinker and the glutton will come to poverty, And drowsiness will clothe one with rags.

Then your poverty will come like a drifter, And your need like an armed man.

One who works his land will have plenty of food, But one who follows empty pursuits will have plenty of poverty.

A person with an evil eye hurries after wealth And does not know that poverty will come upon him.

Keep deception and lies far from me, Give me neither poverty nor riches; Feed me with the food that is my portion,

Let him drink and forget his poverty, And remember his trouble no more.

for they all put in out of their surplus, but she, out of her poverty, put in all she owned, all she had to live on.”

for they all contributed to the offering from their surplus; but she, from her poverty, put in all that she had to live on.”

that in a great ordeal of affliction their abundance of joy and their deep poverty overflowed in the wealth of their liberality.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.

‘I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich), and the slander by those who say they are Jews, and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.