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Wealth brings many new friends,
    but a poor man is deserted by his friend.

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Many seek the favor of a generous man,
    and every one is a friend to a man who gives gifts.
All a poor man’s brothers hate him;
    how much more do his friends go far from him!
He pursues them with words, but does not have them.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 19:7 Heb uncertain

The rich and the poor meet together;
    the Lord is the maker of them all.

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The rich rules over the poor,
    and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

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Do not toil to acquire wealth;
    be wise enough to desist.
When your eyes light upon it, it is gone;
    for suddenly it takes to itself wings,
    flying like an eagle toward heaven.

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He who is sated loathes honey,
    but to one who is hungry everything bitter is sweet.

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Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity
    than a rich man who is perverse in his ways.

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He who augments his wealth by interest and increase
    gathers it for him who is kind to the poor.

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11 A rich man is wise in his own eyes,
    but a poor man who has understanding will find him out.

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20 A faithful man will abound with blessings,
    but he who hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.
21 To show partiality is not good;
    but for a piece of bread a man will do wrong.
22 A miserly man hastens after wealth,
    and does not know that want will come upon him.

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