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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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If the poor are hated even by their kin,
    how much more are they shunned by their friends!
When they call after them, they are not there.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 19.7 Meaning of Heb uncertain

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

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17 Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord
    and will be repaid in full.(A)

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