Verse 4

Wealth makes a great number of friends; but the poor man is parted from his friend.

Referenced Verses

• Prov 14:20 : 20 The poor man is hated even by his neighbour, but the man of wealth has numbers of friends.
• Prov 19:6-7 : 6 Great numbers will make attempts to get the approval of a ruler: and every man is the special friend of him who has something to give. 7 All the brothers of the poor man are against him: how much more do his friends go far from him! ...
• Luke 15:13-15 : 13 And not long after, the younger son got together everything which was his and took a journey into a far-away country, and there all his money went in foolish living. 14 And when everything was gone, there was no food to be had in that country, and he was in need. 15 And he went and put himself into the hands of one of the people of that country, and he sent him into his fields to give the pigs their food.
• Job 6:15-23 : 15 My friends have been false like a stream, like streams in the valleys which come to an end: 16 Which are dark because of the ice, and the snow falling into them; 17 Under the burning sun they are cut off, and come to nothing because of the heat. 18 The camel-trains go out of their way; they go up into the waste and come to destruction. 19 The camel-trains of Tema were searching with care, the bands of Sheba were waiting for them: 20 They were put to shame because of their hope; they came and their hope was gone. 21 So have you now become to me; you see my sad condition and are in fear. 22 Did I say, Give me something? or, Make a payment for me out of your wealth? 23 Or, Get me out of the power of my hater? or, Give money so that I may be free from the power of the cruel ones?
• Job 19:13-17 : 13 He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me. 14 My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds. 15 I am strange to my women-servants, and seem to them as one from another country. 16 At my cry my servant gives me no answer, and I have to make a prayer to him. 17 My breath is strange to my wife, and I am disgusting to the offspring of my mother's body.
• Prov 10:15 : 15 The property of the man of wealth is his strong town: the poor man's need is his destruction.