Proverbs 19:4
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4 Wealth brings many friends,
but the poor are left friendless.(A)
Proverbs 14:20
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20 The poor are disliked even by their neighbors,
but the rich have many friends.(A)
Luke 15:13-15
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13 A few days later the younger son gathered all he had and traveled to a distant region, and there he squandered his wealth in dissolute living. 14 When he had spent everything, a severe famine took place throughout that region, and he began to be in need. 15 So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that region, who sent him to his fields to feed the pigs.
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Proverbs 19:6-7
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6 Many seek the favor of the generous,
and everyone is a friend to a giver of gifts.(A)
7 If the poor are hated even by their kin,
how much more are they shunned by their friends!
When they call after them, they are not there.[a](B)
Footnotes
- 19.7 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Job 19:13-17
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13 “He has put my family far from me,
and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
14 My relatives and my close friends have failed me;
15 the guests in my house have forgotten me;
my female servants count me as a stranger;
I have become an alien in their eyes.(A)
16 I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer;
I must myself plead with him.
17 My breath is repulsive to my wife;
I am loathsome to my own family.
Job 6:15-23
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15 My companions are treacherous like a torrent bed,
like swollen streams that pass away,(A)
16 that run dark with ice,
turbid with melting snow.
17 In time of heat they disappear;
when it is hot, they vanish from their place.(B)
18 The caravans turn aside from their course;
they go up into the waste and perish.
19 The caravans of Tema look;
the travelers of Sheba hope.(C)
20 They are disappointed because they were confident;
they come there and are confounded.(D)
21 Such you have now become to me;[a]
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, ‘Save me from an opponent’s hand’?
Or, ‘Ransom me from the hand of oppressors’?
Footnotes
- 6.21 Cn Compare Gk Syr: Meaning of Heb uncertain
Proverbs 10:15
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15 The wealth of the rich is their fortress;
the poverty of the poor is their ruin.(A)
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