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Source language
JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH   
ובא-מתהלך רישך ומחסריך כאיש מגן
Hebrew - Transliteration via code library   
vbA-mthlk rySHk vmKHsryk kAySH mgn

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
et veniet quasi cursor egestas tua et mendicitas quasi vir armatus

King James Variants
American King James Version   
So shall your poverty come as one that travels; and your want as an armed man.
King James 2000 (out of print)   
So shall your poverty come like a robber; and your want like an armed man.
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
Authorized (King James) Version   
so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
New King James Version   
So shall your poverty come like a prowler, And your need like an armed man.
21st Century King James Version   
so shall thy poverty come as one that wandereth, and thy want as an armed man.

Other translations
American Standard Version   
So shall thy poverty come as a robber, And thy want as an armed man.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English   
Poverty will walk before you, and want will overtake you like a man who is a runner.
Darby Bible Translation   
So shall thy poverty come as a roving plunderer, and thy penury as an armed man.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
And poverty shall come to thee as a runner, and beggary as an armed man.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
So shall thy poverty come as a robber; and thy want as an armed man.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.
God's Word   
Then your poverty will come like a drifter, and your need will come like a bandit.
Holman Christian Standard Bible   
and your poverty will come like a robber, your need, like a bandit.
International Standard Version   
Then your poverty will come upon you like a robber, your need like an armed bandit.
NET Bible   
and your poverty will come like a bandit, and your need like an armed robber."
New American Standard Bible   
Then your poverty will come as a robber And your want like an armed man.
New International Version   
and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.
New Living Translation   
then poverty will pounce on you like a bandit; scarcity will attack you like an armed robber.
Webster's Bible Translation   
So shall thy poverty come as one that traveleth; and thy want as an armed man.
The World English Bible   
so your poverty will come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.
EasyEnglish Bible   
But while you sleep you will suddenly become poor. You will have nothing, as if someone has robbed you.
Young‘s Literal Translation   
And thy poverty hath come [as] a traveller, And thy want as an armed man!
New Life Version   
and your being poor will come as a robber, and your need like a man ready to fight.
The Voice Bible   
But soon poverty will be on top of you like a robber, need will strike you down like a well-armed warrior.
Living Bible   
means that poverty will break in upon you suddenly like a robber and violently like a bandit.
New Catholic Bible   
and poverty will come upon you like a thief, and want will assail you like an armed warrior.
Legacy Standard Bible   
Then your poverty will come as a robber And your want like an armed man.
Jubilee Bible 2000   
So shall thy poverty come as one that travels and thy want as an armed man.
Christian Standard Bible   
and your poverty will come like a robber, and your need, like a bandit.
Amplified Bible © 1954   
So shall your poverty come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.
New Century Version   
Soon you will be as poor as if you had been robbed; you will have as little as if you had been held up.
The Message   
One day I walked by the field of an old lazybones, and then passed the vineyard of a slob; They were overgrown with weeds, thick with thistles, all the fences broken down. I took a long look and pondered what I saw; the fields preached me a sermon and I listened: “A nap here, a nap there, a day off here, a day off there, sit back, take it easy—do you know what comes next? Just this: You can look forward to a dirt-poor life, with poverty as your permanent houseguest!”
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
and poverty will come on you like a prowler, and scarcity will come like a warrior.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want, like an armed warrior.
Good News Translation®   
but while you are asleep, poverty will attack you like an armed robber.
Wycliffe Bible   
and then thy neediness as a courier shall come to thee, and thy beggary as an armed man.
Contemporary English Version   
Suddenly poverty hits you and everything is gone!
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want, like an armed warrior.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want, like an armed warrior.
Common English Bible © 2011   
and poverty will come on you like a prowler, deprivation like a man with a shield.
Amplified Bible © 2015   
Then your poverty will come as a robber, And your want like an armed man.
English Standard Version Anglicised   
and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
Then poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like a brigand.
New American Standard Bible   
Then your poverty will come like a drifter, And your need like an armed man.
The Expanded Bible   
So ·you will be as poor as if you had been robbed [L poverty will come on you like a robber]; ·you will have as little as if you had been held up [L deprivation (will come on you) like a shielded warrior].
Tree of Life Version   
then your poverty comes tramping in, and your need like an armed soldier.
Revised Standard Version   
and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.
New International Reader's Version   
Then you would be poor, as if someone had robbed you. You would have little, as if someone had stolen from you.
BRG Bible   
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
Complete Jewish Bible   
and poverty comes marching in on you, scarcity hits you like an invading soldier.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want, like an armed warrior.
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
So shall thy poverty come like a prowler; and thy want like an ish mogen (armed warrior).
Names of God Bible   
Then your poverty will come like a drifter, and your need will come like a bandit.
Modern English Version   
so your poverty will come like a stalker, and your need as an armed man.
Easy-to-Read Version   
these things will make you poor very quickly. Soon you will have nothing, as if a thief broke in and took everything away.
International Children’s Bible   
Soon you will be poor, as if you had been robbed. You will have as little as if you had been held up.
Lexham English Bible   
and your poverty will come running, and your lack like an armed warrior.
New International Version - UK   
and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.