Verse 20

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

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.