Verses with the word poverty in the Apocrypha (9 verses):
2 Esdras 15:49
I will send plagues upon thee; widowhood, poverty, famine, sword, and pestilence, to waste thy houses with destruction and death.
Sirach 10:31
He that is honoured in poverty, how much more in riches? and he that is dishonourable in riches, how much more in poverty?
Sirach 11:12
Again, there is another that is slow, and hath need of help, wanting ability, and full of poverty; yet the eye of the Lord looked upon him for good, and set him up from his low estate,
Sirach 11:14
Prosperity and adversity, life and death, poverty and riches, come of the Lord.
Sirach 13:24
Riches are good unto him that hath no sin, and poverty is evil in the mouth of the ungodly.
Sirach 18:25
When thou hast enough, remember the time of hunger: and when thou art rich, think upon poverty and need.
Sirach 22:23
Be faithful to thy neighbour in his poverty, that thou mayest rejoice in his prosperity: abide stedfast unto him in the time of his trouble, that thou mayest be heir with him in his heritage: for a mean estate is not always to be contemned: nor the rich that is foolish to be had in admiration.
Sirach 26:28
There be two things that grieve my heart; and the third maketh me angry: a man of war that suffereth poverty; and men of understanding that are not set by; and one that returneth from righteousness to sin; the Lord prepareth such an one for the sword.
Sirach 29:9
Help the poor for the commandment's sake, and turn him not away because of his poverty.
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