'Poverty' in the Bible

There I will provide for you and sustain you, so that you and your household and all that are yours may not become impoverished, for there are still five years of famine to come.”’

And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim freedom [for the slaves] throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee (year of remission) for you, and each of you shall return to his own [ancestral] property [that was sold to another because of poverty], and each of you shall return to his family [from whom he was separated by bondage].

‘Now if your fellow countryman becomes poor and his hand falters with you [that is, he has trouble repaying you for something], then you are to help and sustain him, [with courtesy and consideration] like [you would] a stranger or a temporary resident [without property], so that he may live among you.

So your poverty will come like an approaching prowler who walks [slowly, but surely]And your need [will come] like an armed man [making you helpless].

The rich man’s wealth is his fortress;The ruin of the poor is their poverty.

Poverty and shame will come to him who refuses instruction and discipline,But he who accepts and learns from reproof or censure is honored.

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

Do not love [excessive] sleep, or you will become poor;Open your eyes [so that you can do your work] and you will be satisfied with bread.

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

Then your poverty will come as a robber,And your want like an armed man.

He who cultivates his land will have plenty of bread,But he who follows worthless people and frivolous pursuits will have plenty of poverty.

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 povertyAnd no longer remember his trouble.