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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.

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A poor man’s own brothers turn away from him in embarrassment;[a] how much more his friends! He calls after them, but they are gone.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 19:7 turn away from him in embarrassment, literally, “despise him.”