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Pro_6:11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Ver. 11. As a traveller, and thy want as an armed man.] That is, Speedily and irresistibly. Men must sweat out a living, and earn their bread before they eat it. {2Th_3:12} Think not to have wealth without working; as cities and towns are said to have fallen into Timotheus’s toil as he was sleeping - with so much ease he took them in. Spontaneae lassitudines morbos praecedunt, {a} roamings and reachings forerun diseases; so doth sluggishness usher in penury; when, as manus motitans, "the nimble hand maketh rich"; {Pro_10:4} and "in all labour there is abundance." {Pro_14:23} But, Nae, illi falsi sunt qui diversissimas res expectant ignaviae voluptatem et praemia virtutis. {b} They are utterly out that think to have the pleasure of idleness, and the plenty of painfulness.
{a} Hippocrat.
{b} Salust.