And poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.
NIV
So will your poverty come like a robber or one who travels [with slowly but surely approaching steps] and your want like an armed man [making you helpless]. [Prov. 10:4; 13:4; 20:4.]AMP
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
KJV