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Proverbs 10:15
New Living Translation
Proverbs 10:15
New Living Translation
15 The wealth of the rich is their fortress;
the poverty of the poor is their destruction.
Proverbs 10:15
English Standard Version
Proverbs 10:15
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15 (A)A rich man's wealth is his strong city;
the poverty of the poor is their ruin.
Proverbs 10:15
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Proverbs 10:15
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Proverbs 14:20
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Proverbs 14:20
New Living Translation
20 The poor are despised even by their neighbors,
while the rich have many “friends.”
Proverbs 14:20
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Proverbs 14:20
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Proverbs 14:20
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Proverbs 14:20
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20 The poor are shunned even by their neighbors,
but the rich have many friends.(A)
Proverbs 18:23
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Proverbs 18:23
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23 The poor plead for mercy;
the rich answer with insults.
Proverbs 18:23
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Proverbs 18:23
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23 The poor use entreaties,
but (A)the rich answer roughly.
Proverbs 18:23
New International Version
Proverbs 18:23
New International Version
23 The poor plead for mercy,
but the rich answer harshly.
Proverbs 19:1
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Proverbs 19:1
New Living Translation
19 Better to be poor and honest
than to be dishonest and a fool.
Proverbs 19:1
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Proverbs 19:1
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19 (A)Better is a poor person who (B)walks in his integrity
than one who is crooked in speech and is a fool.
Proverbs 19:1
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Proverbs 19:1
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19 Better the poor whose walk is blameless
than a fool whose lips are perverse.(A)
Proverbs 19:4
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Proverbs 19:4
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4 Wealth makes many “friends”;
poverty drives them all away.
Proverbs 19:4
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Proverbs 19:4
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Proverbs 19:4
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Proverbs 19:4
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4 Wealth attracts many friends,
but even the closest friend of the poor person deserts them.(A)
Proverbs 19:7
New Living Translation
Proverbs 19:7
New Living Translation
7 The relatives of the poor despise them;
how much more will their friends avoid them!
Though the poor plead with them,
their friends are gone.
Proverbs 19:7
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Proverbs 19:7
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7 (A)All a poor man's brothers hate him;
(B)how much more do his friends go far from him!
He pursues them with words, but does not have them.[a]
Footnotes
- Proverbs 19:7 The meaning of the Hebrew sentence is uncertain
Proverbs 19:7
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Proverbs 19:7
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Proverbs 19:17
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Proverbs 19:17
New Living Translation
17 If you help the poor, you are lending to the Lord—
and he will repay you!
Proverbs 19:17
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Proverbs 19:17
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Proverbs 19:17
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Proverbs 19:17
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Proverbs 19:22
New Living Translation
Proverbs 19:22
New Living Translation
22 Loyalty makes a person attractive.
It is better to be poor than dishonest.
Proverbs 19:22
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Proverbs 19:22
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22 What is desired in a man is steadfast love,
and a poor man is better than a liar.
Proverbs 19:22
New International Version
Proverbs 19:22
New International Version
22 What a person desires is unfailing love[a];
better to be poor than a liar.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 19:22 Or Greed is a person’s shame
Proverbs 21:13
New Living Translation
Proverbs 21:13
New Living Translation
13 Those who shut their ears to the cries of the poor
will be ignored in their own time of need.
Proverbs 21:13
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Proverbs 21:13
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13 (A)Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor
will himself call out and not be answered.
Proverbs 21:13
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Proverbs 21:13
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