¹⁵ The ^(A)rich man’s wealth is his strong city,
The ^(B)ruin of the poor is their poverty.

19 ^(A)Better is a poor man who ^(B)walks in his integrity
Than he who is crooked in lips and is a fool.

^4 (A)Wealth adds many friends,
But a poor man is separated from his friend.

⁷ All the brothers of a poor man hate him;
How much more do his ^(A)friends distance themselves from him!
He ^(B)pursues them with words, but they are no more.

¹⁷ He who ^(A)is gracious to a poor man lends to Yahweh,
And He will repay him for his ^(B)bountiful deed.

²² What is desirable in a man is his lovingkindness,
And better is a poor man than a man of falsehood.

¹³ He who ^(A)shuts his ear to the outcry of the poor
Will himself also call and not be ^(B)answered.

² The rich and the poor meet together in this—
Yahweh is the ^(A)Maker of them all.