Proverbs 18:23

KJV1611 – Modern English

The poor use entreaties, but the rich answer roughly.

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  • Jas 2:3 : 3 and you pay attention to the one wearing fine clothes and say to him, Sit here in a good place, and say to the poor, Stand there, or sit here under my footstool,
  • Jas 2:6 : 6 But you have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and haul you into the courts?
  • Gen 42:7 : 7 And Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but made himself strange to them, and spoke roughly to them; and he said to them, Where do you come from? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
  • Gen 42:30 : 30 The man, who is the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.
  • Exod 5:2 : 2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, nor will I let Israel go.
  • Ruth 2:7 : 7 And she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves. So she came and has continued even from the morning until now, except she rested a little in the house.
  • 1 Sam 2:36 : 36 And it shall come to pass, that everyone who is left in your house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Please put me into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.
  • 1 Sam 25:10 : 10 And Nabal answered David's servants and said, Who is David? And who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants these days who break away from their masters.
  • 1 Sam 25:17 : 17 Now therefore know and consider what you will do, for harm is determined against our master and against all his household, for he is such a scoundrel that one cannot speak to him.
  • 2 Kgs 4:1-2 : 1 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant feared the LORD: and the creditor has come to take my two sons to be slaves. 2 And Elisha said to her, What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house? And she said, Your maidservant has nothing in the house except a pot of oil.
  • Isa 66:2 : 2 For all those things my hand has made, and all those things have been, says the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is humble and of a contrite spirit, and trembles at my word.
  • Matt 5:3 : 3 Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
  • Jas 1:9-9 : 9 Let the brother of low position rejoice in that he is lifted up; 10 But the rich in that he is made low, because as the flower of the grass he will pass away. 11 For the sun rises with a burning heat, and it withers the grass, and its flower falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes: so also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.

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    20The poor is hated even by his own neighbor, but the rich have many friends.

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  • Prov 19:6-7
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  • Prov 21:13
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    31He who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker, but he who honors Him has mercy on the poor.

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

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

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