⁴ Wealthy people are always finding more friends,
but the poor lose all theirs.

⁶ Many people ·want to please [^Lseek the face of] a leader,
and everyone is friends with those who give gifts.

⁷ Poor people’s relatives ·avoid [^Lhate] them;
    ·even [^Lhow much more do] their friends stay far away.
They run after them, begging,
    but they are gone.

² The rich and the poor ·are alike [have a common bond]
in that the Lord made them all.

⁷ The rich rule over the poor,
and borrowers are ·servants [slaves] to lenders.

⁴ Don’t wear yourself out trying to get rich;
    be wise enough to ·control [stop] yourself.
⁵ ·Wealth can vanish in the wink of an eye [^LYour eye can fly to it and it will be gone].
    It can seem to grow wings
and fly away like an eagle.