Verse 4

Wealth attracts many friends, but a poor person is abandoned by their friends.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 14:20 : 20 The poor are hated even by their own neighbors, but the rich have many friends.
  • Prov 19:6-7 : 6 Many seek the favor of a generous person, and everyone is a friend to the one who gives gifts. 7 All the relatives of a poor person hate him; how much more do his friends avoid him. He pursues them with words, but they are not there.
  • Luke 15:13-15 : 13 Not long after, the younger son gathered all he had and traveled to a distant country, where he squandered his wealth in reckless living. 14 After he had spent everything, a severe famine arose throughout that country, and he began to be in need. 15 So he went and attached himself to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
  • Job 6:15-23 : 15 My brothers have acted deceitfully, like a wadi, like streams that flow away. 16 Streams dark with ice, where the snow conceals itself, 17 but when they are warmed, they vanish; when heated, they disappear from their place. 18 Caravans turn aside from their paths; they go into the wasteland and perish. 19 The caravans of Tema look for them, the travelers of Sheba expect them. 20 They are ashamed because they trusted; they arrive there and are disappointed. 21 For now you have become like nothing to him; you see terror and are afraid. 22 Have I said, ‘Give to me,’ or, ‘Offer a bribe for me from your wealth’? 23 Or, ‘Deliver me from the hand of the adversary,’ or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the ruthless’?
  • Job 19:13-17 : 13 He has driven my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances have turned against me. 14 My relatives have ceased to be close, and my close friends have forgotten me. 15 The guests in my house and my maidservants regard me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes. 16 I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I must plead with him with my own mouth. 17 My breath is offensive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own children.
  • Prov 10:15 : 15 The wealth of the rich is their fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor.