(A)Wealth brings many new friends,
    (B)but a poor man is deserted by his friend.

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Wealth attracts many friends,
    but even the closest friend of the poor person deserts them.(A)

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20 (A)The poor is disliked even by his neighbor,
    (B)but the rich has many friends.

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20 The poor are shunned even by their neighbors,
    but the rich have many friends.(A)

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13 Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in (A)reckless living. 14 And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need. 15 So he went and hired himself out to[a] one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

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  1. Luke 15:15 Greek joined himself to

13 “Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth(A) in wild living. 14 After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need. 15 So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.(B)

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Many seek the favor of a generous man,[a]
    and everyone is a friend to a man who gives (A)gifts.
(B)All a poor man's brothers hate him;
    (C)how much more do his friends go far from him!
He pursues them with words, but does not have them.[b]

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  1. Proverbs 19:6 Or of a noble
  2. Proverbs 19:7 The meaning of the Hebrew sentence is uncertain

Many curry favor with a ruler,(A)
    and everyone is the friend of one who gives gifts.(B)

The poor are shunned by all their relatives—
    how much more do their friends avoid them!(C)
Though the poor pursue them with pleading,
    they are nowhere to be found.[a](D)

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  1. Proverbs 19:7 The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.

13 “He has put my (A)brothers far from me,
    and (B)those who knew me are wholly estranged from me.
14 My relatives (C)have failed me,
    my close (D)friends have forgotten me.
15 The guests (E)in my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger;
    I have become a foreigner in their eyes.
16 I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer;
    I must plead with him with my mouth for mercy.
17 My breath is strange to my (F)wife,
    and I am a stench to the children of (G)my own mother.

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13 “He has alienated my family(A) from me;
    my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.(B)
14 My relatives have gone away;
    my closest friends(C) have forgotten me.
15 My guests(D) and my female servants(E) count me a foreigner;
    they look on me as on a stranger.
16 I summon my servant, but he does not answer,
    though I beg him with my own mouth.
17 My breath is offensive to my wife;
    I am loathsome(F) to my own family.

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15 My (A)brothers are (B)treacherous as a torrent-bed,
    as torrential (C)streams that pass away,
16 which are dark with ice,
    and where the snow hides itself.
17 When they melt, they disappear;
    when it is hot, they vanish from their place.
18 The caravans turn aside from their course;
    they go up into (D)the waste and perish.
19 The caravans of (E)Tema look,
    the travelers of (F)Sheba hope.
20 They are (G)ashamed because they were confident;
    they come there and are (H)disappointed.
21 For you have now become nothing;
    you see my calamity and are afraid.
22 Have I said, ‘Make me a gift’?
    Or, ‘From your wealth offer a bribe for me’?
23 Or, ‘Deliver me from the adversary's hand’?
    Or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of (I)the ruthless’?

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15 But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams,(A)
    as the streams that overflow
16 when darkened by thawing ice
    and swollen with melting snow,(B)
17 but that stop flowing in the dry season,
    and in the heat(C) vanish from their channels.
18 Caravans turn aside from their routes;
    they go off into the wasteland and perish.
19 The caravans of Tema(D) look for water,
    the traveling merchants of Sheba(E) look in hope.
20 They are distressed, because they had been confident;
    they arrive there, only to be disappointed.(F)
21 Now you too have proved to be of no help;
    you see something dreadful and are afraid.(G)
22 Have I ever said, ‘Give something on my behalf,
    pay a ransom(H) for me from your wealth,(I)
23 deliver me from the hand of the enemy,
    rescue me from the clutches of the ruthless’?(J)

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15 (A)A rich man's wealth is his strong city;
    the poverty of the poor is their ruin.

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15 The wealth of the rich is their fortified city,(A)
    but poverty is the ruin of the poor.(B)

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