8 Bible Verses about Becoming Poor

Whoso is refusing instruction -- poverty and shame, And whoso is observing reproof is honoured.

Whoso is tilling his ground is satisfied with bread, And whoso is pursuing vanity, Is filled with poverty.

In all labour there is advantage, And a thing of the lips is only to want.

The violence hath risen to a rod of wickedness, There is none of them, nor of their multitude, Nor of their noise, nor is there wailing for them.

And it cometh to pass, on the seventh day, that they say to Samson's wife, 'Entice thy husband, that he declare to us the riddle, lest we burn thee and the house of thy father with fire; to possess us have ye called for us? is it not?'

Lo, the Lord doth dispossess her, And He hath smitten in the sea her force, And she with fire is consumed.

and many things having suffered under many physicians, and having spent all that she had, and having profited nothing, but rather having come to the worse,

and he having spent all, there came a mighty famine on that country, and himself began to be in want;