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
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
15 The wealth of the rich is their fortress;
the poverty of the poor is their ruin.(A)
Proverbs 14:20
New Living Translation
20 The poor are despised even by their neighbors,
while the rich have many “friends.”
Proverbs 14:20
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
20 The poor are disliked even by their neighbors,
but the rich have many friends.(A)
Proverbs 18:23
New Living Translation
23 The poor plead for mercy;
the rich answer with insults.
Proverbs 18:23
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
23 The poor use entreaties,
but the rich answer roughly.(A)
Proverbs 19:1
New Living Translation
19 Better to be poor and honest
than to be dishonest and a fool.
Proverbs 19:1
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
19 Better the poor walking in integrity
than one perverse of speech who is a fool.(A)
Proverbs 19:4
New Living Translation
4 Wealth makes many “friends”;
poverty drives them all away.
Proverbs 19:4
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 Wealth brings many friends,
but the poor are left friendless.(A)
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
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
7 If the poor are hated even by their kin,
how much more are they shunned by their friends!
When they call after them, they are not there.[a](A)
Footnotes
- 19.7 Meaning of Heb uncertain
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
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
17 Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord
and will be repaid in full.(A)
Proverbs 19:22
New Living Translation
22 Loyalty makes a person attractive.
It is better to be poor than dishonest.
Proverbs 19:22
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
22 What is desirable in a person is loyalty,
and it is better to be poor than a liar.
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
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
13 If you close your ear to the cry of the poor,
you will cry out and not be heard.(A)
Proverbs 22:2
New Living Translation
2 The rich and poor have this in common:
The Lord made them both.
Proverbs 22:2
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 The rich and the poor have this in common:
the Lord is the maker of them all.
Proverbs 22:7
New Living Translation
7 Just as the rich rule the poor,
so the borrower is servant to the lender.
Proverbs 22:7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
7 The rich rule over the poor,
and the borrower is the slave of the lender.(A)
Proverbs 22:16
New Living Translation
16 A person who gets ahead by oppressing the poor
or by showering gifts on the rich will end in poverty.
Proverbs 22:16
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
16 Oppressing the poor in order to enrich oneself,
and giving to the rich, will lead only to loss.
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