Verse 4

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

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  • Prov 14:20 : 20 The poor is hated even by his own neighbor, but the rich have many friends.
  • 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.
  • Luke 15:13-15 : 13 And not many days after, the younger son gathered everything together, and took his journey to a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. 14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. 15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
  • Job 6:15-23 : 15 My brothers have dealt deceitfully like a brook, like the streams of brooks that pass away, 16 Which are dark because of the ice, and where the snow is hidden: 17 At the time when they grow warm, they vanish; when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place. 18 The paths of their way turn aside; they go to nothing and perish. 19 The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them. 20 They were confounded because they had hoped; they came there and were ashamed. 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 19:13-17 : 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. 15 Those who dwell in my house and my maids count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight. 16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I pleaded with him with my mouth. 17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I pleaded for the children's sake of my own body.
  • Prov 10:15 : 15 The rich man's wealth is his strong city, the destruction of the poor is their poverty.