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Wealth makes many “friends”;
    poverty drives them all away.

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Wealth attracts many friends,(A)
but a poor person is separated from his friend.

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Many seek favors from a ruler;
    everyone is the friend of a person who gives gifts!

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Many seek a ruler’s favor,(A)
and everyone is a friend of one who gives gifts.(B)

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17 If you help the poor, you are lending to the Lord
    and he will repay you!

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17 Kindness to the poor is a loan to the Lord,(A)
and he will give a reward to the lender.[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. 19:17 Lit to him