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All the relatives of the poor shun him:
    how much more do his friends avoid him!
    He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.

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All the brethren of the poor do hate him:
How much more do his friends go far from him!
[a]He pursueth them with words, but they are gone.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 19:7 Or, He pursueth after words, which are nought

17 He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh;
    he will reward him.

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17 He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto Jehovah,
And his good deed will he pay him again.

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