Proverbs 19:4
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Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.Wealth attracts many friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend.
In other translations
Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.Wealth attracts many friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend.
Hebrew words
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
Related verses
- Proverbs 14:20The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.The poor man is hated even by his neighbor, but many are those who love the rich.
- Proverbs 19:6-76 Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts. 7 All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.6 Many seek the favor of the prince, and everyone is a friend of the gift giver. 7 All the brothers of a poor man hate him— how much more do his friends avoid him! He may pursue them with pleading, but they are nowhere to be found.
- Luke 15:13-1513 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. 14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. 15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.13 After a few days, the younger son got everything together and journeyed to a distant country, where he squandered his wealth in wild living. 14 After he had spent all he had, a severe famine swept through that country, and he began to be in need. 15 So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.
- Job 19:13-1713 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. 14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. 15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight. 16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.13 He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me. 14 My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me. 15 My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight. 16 I call for my servant, but he does not answer, though I implore him with my own mouth.
- Proverbs 10:15The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.The wealth of the rich man is his fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor.
- Job 6:15-2315 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away; 16 Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid: 17 What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place. 18 The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.15 But my brothers are as faithless as wadis, as seasonal streams that overflow, 16 darkened because of the ice and the inflow of melting snow, 17 but ceasing in the dry season and vanishing from their channels in the heat. 18 Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go into the wasteland and perish.
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