Proverbs 14:20

Proverbs 14:20
The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, but the rich person has many friends.

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

Proverbs 19:7
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.

Proverbs 19:4
Wealth adds many friends, but the poor is separated from his friend.

Ecclesiastes 9:15
Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

Ecclesiastes 9:16
Then I said, “Wisdom is better than strength.” Nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

Proverbs 6:11
so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.

Proverbs 18:23
The poor plead for mercy, but the rich answer harshly.

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James 2:5
Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

James 2:6
But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and personally drag you before the courts?

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

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Leviticus 25:35
“ ‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you, then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.

Deuteronomy 15:7
If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;

Deuteronomy 15:8
but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks.

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Job 19:13
“He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

Job 19:14
My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.

Job 30:10
They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don’t hesitate to spit in my face.

Job 42:11
Then all his brothers, all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, came to him and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.

Proverbs 10:15
The rich man’s wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

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Proverbs 13:13
Whoever despises instruction will pay for it, but he who respects a command will be rewarded.

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