⁴ Wealth attracts many friends,
    but even the closest friend of the poor person deserts them.^(A)

⁶ Many curry favor with a ruler,^(A)
    and everyone is the friend of one who gives gifts.^(B)

⁷ 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)

² Rich and poor have this in common:
    The Lord is the Maker of them all.^(A)

⁷ The rich rule over the poor,
    and the borrower is slave to the lender.

⁷ One who is full loathes honey from the comb,
    but to the hungry even what is bitter tastes sweet.

⁶ Better the poor whose walk is blameless
    than the rich whose ways are perverse.^(A)

⁸ Whoever increases wealth by taking interest^(A) or profit from the poor
    amasses it for another,^(B) who will be kind to the poor.^(C)

¹¹ The rich are wise in their own eyes;
    one who is poor and discerning sees how deluded they are.