Proverbs 14:20

World English Bible (2000)

The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, but the rich person has many friends.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 19:4 : 4 Wealth adds many friends, but the poor is separated from his friend.
  • Prov 19:6-7 : 6 Many will entreat the favor of a ruler, and everyone is a friend to a man who gives gifts. 7 All the relatives of the poor shun him: how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.
  • Esth 3:2 : 2 All the king's servants who were in the king's gate bowed down, and paid homage to Haman; for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai didn't bow down or pay him homage.
  • Esth 5:10-11 : 10 Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went home. There, he sent and called for his friends and Zeresh his wife. 11 Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which 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 a terror, and are afraid. 22 Did I say, 'Give to me?' or, 'Offer a present for me from your substance?' 23 or, 'Deliver me from the adversary's hand?' or, 'Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?'
  • Job 19:13-14 : 13 "He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me. 14 My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.
  • Job 30:10 : 10 They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don't 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 adds many friends, but the poor is separated from his friend.

  • Prov 14:21
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    21He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who has pity on the poor.

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

    7All the relatives of the poor shun him: how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.

  • Prov 10:15
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    15The rich man's wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

  • Prov 18:23-24
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    23The poor plead for mercy, but the rich answer harshly.

    24A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

  • Prov 22:16
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    16Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

  • Prov 14:31
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    31He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

  • Prov 28:11
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    11The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding sees through him.

  • Prov 13:7-8
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    7There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.

    8The ransom of a man's life is his riches, but the poor hear no threats.

  • Prov 28:6
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    6Better is the poor who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is rich.

  • Prov 28:3
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    3A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.

  • Prov 28:27
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    27One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

  • Prov 21:10
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    10The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.

  • Ps 41:1
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    1Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

  • Prov 28:22
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    22A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn't know that poverty waits for him.

  • Prov 14:19
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    19The evil bow down before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

  • Prov 28:8
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    8He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

  • Prov 22:2
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    2The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.

  • Prov 29:7
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    7The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren't concerned about knowledge.

  • Jas 2:6
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    6But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

  • Job 24:4
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    4They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

  • Prov 21:13
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    13Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

  • Prov 13:23
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    23An abundance of food is in poor people's fields, but injustice sweeps it away.

  • Prov 17:5
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    5Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

  • Ps 14:6
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    6You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.

  • Job 5:16
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    16So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

  • Prov 18:11
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    11The rich man's wealth is his strong city, like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.

  • Prov 29:13
    71%

    13The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: Yahweh gives sight to the eyes of both.

  • Ps 89:41
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    41All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.

  • Ps 49:2
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    2both low and high, rich and poor together.

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    14The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright in the way.

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    70%

    17Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor's house, lest he be weary of you, and hate you.

  • Prov 22:22
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    22Don't exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don't crush the needy in court;

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    70%

    13There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

  • Prov 19:1
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  • Prov 22:9
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    9He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

  • Job 6:14
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    14"To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

  • Prov 22:7
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    7The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

  • Prov 27:10
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    10Don't forsake your friend and your father's friend. Don't go to your brother's house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.

  • Prov 19:17
    70%

    17He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

  • Exod 23:3
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    3neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause.

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    20A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.