Proverbs 14:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

The poor is hated even by his own neighbor, but the rich have many friends.

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  • Prov 19:4 : 4 Wealth makes many friends, but the poor is separated from his neighbor.
  • Prov 19:6-7 : 6 Many will entreat the favor of the prince, and everyone is a friend to him who gives gifts. 7 All the brethren of the poor hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him? He pursues them with words, yet they are wanting to him.
  • Esth 3:2 : 2 And all the king's servants who were in the king's gate bowed and reverenced Haman, for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai did not bow, nor did he show reverence.
  • Esth 5:10-11 : 10 Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and when he came home, he sent and called for his friends and Zeresh, his wife. 11 And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.
  • Job 6:21-23 : 21 For now you are nothing; you see my downfall and are afraid. 22 Did I say, Bring to me? Or Give a reward for me of your substance? 23 Or Deliver me from the enemy's hand? Or Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
  • Job 19:13-14 : 13 He has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are truly estranged from me. 14 My relatives have failed, and my close friends have forgotten me.
  • Job 30:10 : 10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and do not hesitate to spit in my face.
  • Prov 10:15 : 15 The rich man's wealth is his strong city, the destruction of the poor is their poverty.

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  • 4Wealth makes many friends, but the poor is separated from his neighbor.

  • 21He who despises his neighbor sins, but he who has mercy on the poor, happy is he.

  • Prov 19:6-7
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    6Many will entreat the favor of the prince, and everyone is a friend to him who gives gifts.

    7All the brethren of the poor hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him? He pursues them with words, yet they are wanting to him.

  • 15The rich man's wealth is his strong city, the destruction of the poor is their poverty.

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    23The poor use entreaties, but the rich answer roughly.

    24A man who has friends must show himself friendly, and there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

  • 16He who oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he who gives to the rich, shall surely come to want.

  • 31He who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker, but he who honors Him has mercy on the poor.

  • 11The rich man is wise in his own eyes, but the poor who has understanding searches him out.

  • Prov 13:7-8
    2 verses
    75%

    7There is one who makes himself rich, yet has nothing; there is one who makes himself poor, yet has great riches.

    8The ransom of a man's life are his riches, but the poor hears not rebuke.

  • 6Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.

  • 3A poor man who oppresses the poor is like a sweeping rain that leaves no food.

  • 27He who gives to the poor shall not lack, but he who hides his eyes will have many curses.

  • 10The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no favor in his eyes.

  • 1Blessed is he who considers the poor; the LORD will deliver him in times of trouble.

  • 22He who hastens to be rich has an evil eye and does not consider that poverty shall come upon him.

  • 19The evil will bow before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

  • 8He who by usury and unjust gain increases his wealth gathers it for one who will pity the poor.

  • 2The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.

  • 7The righteous consider the cause of the poor; but the wicked do not understand to know it.

  • 6But you have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and haul you into the courts?

  • 4They turn the needy out of the way; the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

  • 13Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.

  • 23Much food is in the tillage of the poor, but there is that which is destroyed for lack of judgment.

  • 5Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker, and he who is glad at calamity shall not go unpunished.

  • 6You have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.

  • 16So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.

  • 11The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and like a high wall in his own conceit.

  • 13The poor and the deceitful man meet together; the LORD gives light to both their eyes.

  • 41All who pass by the way plunder him; he is a reproach to his neighbors.

  • 2Both low and high, rich and poor, together.

  • 14The wicked have drawn the sword and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay those who are of upright conduct.

  • 16A little that the righteous has is better than the riches of many wicked.

  • 2The wicked in his pride persecutes the poor; let them be caught in the devices they have imagined.

  • 22The desire of a man is his kindness, and a poor man is better than a liar.

  • 17Withdraw your foot from your neighbor's house, lest he become weary of you and so hate you.

  • 22Do not rob the poor because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate;

  • 13There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners to their hurt.

  • 1Better is the poor who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

  • 9He who has a bountiful eye shall be blessed, for he gives of his bread to the poor.

  • 14To him who is afflicted, pity should be shown by his friend; yet he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

  • 7The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

  • 10Do not forsake your own friend, nor your father's friend, and do not go into your brother's house in the day of your calamity; better is a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.

  • 17He who has pity on the poor lends to the LORD, and that which he has given will He pay him again.

  • 3Nor shall you show favoritism to a poor man in his dispute.

  • 20A faithful person shall abound with blessings, but he who hastens to be rich shall not be innocent.