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

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

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(A)Many will seek the favor of a noble man,
And everyone is a friend to a man who (B)gives gifts.
All the brothers of a poor man hate him;
How much more do his (C)friends distance themselves from him!
He (D)pursues them with words, but they are no more.

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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 in this
Yahweh is the (A)Maker of them all.

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

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The (A)rich rules over the poor,
And the borrower is the slave of the lender.

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

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(A)Do not weary yourself to gain wealth,
(B)Because of your understanding, cease!
Do you make your eyes fly up to see it? But it is not there!
Because (C)it certainly makes itself wings
Like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.

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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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A satisfied soul tramples the honeycomb,
But to a hungry soul any bitter thing is sweet.

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

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(A)Better is the poor who walks in his integrity
Than he who is crooked—[a]double dealing—though he be rich.

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  1. Proverbs 28:6 Lit two ways

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 increases his wealth by (A)interest and usury
Gathers it (B)for him who is gracious to the lowly.

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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 The rich man is (A)wise in his own eyes,
But the lowly who understands [a]searches him.

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  1. Proverbs 28:11 Or sees right through him

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 (A)faithful man will abound with blessings,
But he who (B)makes haste to be rich will not go unpunished.
21 To [a](C)show partiality is not good,
(D)Even for a piece of bread a man will transgress.
22 A man with an (E)evil eye (F)hurries after wealth
And does not know that want will come upon him.

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  1. Proverbs 28:21 Lit regard the face

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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