Proverbs 19:4

World English Bible (2000)

Wealth adds many friends, but the poor is separated from his friend.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 14:20 : 20 The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, but the rich person has many friends.
  • 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.
  • Luke 15:13-15 : 13 Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living. 14 When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need. 15 He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
  • Job 6:15-23 : 15 My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away; 16 Which are black by reason of the ice, in which the snow hides itself. 17 In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place. 18 The caravans that travel beside them turn aside. They go up into the waste, and perish. 19 The caravans of Tema looked. The companies of Sheba waited for them. 20 They were distressed because they were confident. They came there, and were confounded. 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 19:13-17 : 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. 15 Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight. 16 I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth. 17 My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
  • 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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  • Prov 14:20-21
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    20The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, but the rich person has many friends.

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

  • Prov 19:6-7
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    80%

    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 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 22:16
    74%

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

  • Prov 28:11
    73%

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

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

  • Prov 22:1-2
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    72%

    1A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold.

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

  • Prov 28:22
    71%

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

  • Prov 18:11
    71%

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

  • Prov 19:1
    71%

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

  • Luke 16:9
    71%

    9I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.

  • Prov 27:10
    71%

    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 28:27
    70%

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

  • Prov 10:4
    70%

    4He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.

  • Prov 28:19-20
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    19One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

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

  • Prov 17:17-18
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    70%

    17A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

    18A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes collateral in the presence of his neighbor.

  • Ps 49:6
    70%

    6Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches--

  • Prov 21:17
    70%

    17He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.

  • Prov 10:22
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    22Yahweh's blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

  • Ps 49:2
    70%

    2both low and high, rich and poor together.

  • Prov 19:17
    69%

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

  • Prov 11:24
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    24There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.

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

  • Prov 1:14
    69%

    14You shall cast your lot among us. We'll all have one purse."

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

  • Prov 18:16
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    16A man's gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.

  • Prov 16:28
    69%

    28A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

  • Prov 19:22
    69%

    22That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness. A poor man is better than a liar.

  • Prov 22:9
    69%

    9He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

  • Prov 22:7
    69%

    7The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

  • Prov 19:3
    69%

    3The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against Yahweh.

  • Prov 13:11
    69%

    11Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.

  • Eccl 9:16
    68%

    16Then I said, "Wisdom is better than strength." Nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

  • Prov 14:31
    68%

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

  • Prov 6:11
    68%

    11so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.

  • Eccl 5:13
    68%

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

  • Luke 12:21
    68%

    21So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."

  • Ps 37:16
    68%

    16Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance of many wicked.

  • Deut 15:4
    68%

    4However there shall be no poor with you; (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it;)