¹⁵ The rich man’s wealth is his strong city:
    the destruction of the poor is their poverty.

²⁰ The poor is hated even of his own neighbour:
    but the rich hath many friends.

²³ The poor useth intreaties;
    but the rich answereth roughly.

19 Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity,
    than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

⁴ Wealth maketh many friends;
    but the poor is separated from his neighbour.

⁷ All the brethren of the poor do hate him:
    how much more do his friends go far from him?
he pursueth them with words,
    yet they are wanting to him.

¹⁷ He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord;
    and that which he hath given will he pay him again.

²² The desire of a man is his kindness:
    and a poor man is better than a liar.

¹³ Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor,
    he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.

² The rich and poor meet together:
    the Lord is the maker of them all.