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 neighbor;
But the rich hath many friends.

²³ The poor useth entreaties;
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 addeth many friends;
But ^[a]the poor is separated from his friend.

⁷ All the brethren of the poor do hate him:
How much more do his friends go far from him!
^[a]He pursueth them with words, but they are gone.

¹⁷ He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto Jehovah,
And his good deed will he pay him again.