Proverbs 19:4

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

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Genesis 14:17
The king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).

Judges 11:34
Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house; and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child. Besides her he had neither son nor daughter.

1 Samuel 18:6
As they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul with tambourines, with joy, and with instruments of music.

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Exodus 23:8
“You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

Deuteronomy 16:19
You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

1 Samuel 8:3
His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned away after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.

1 Samuel 12:3
Here I am. Witness against me before Yahweh and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Of whose hand have I taken a bribe to make me blind my eyes? I will restore it to you.”

Psalms 26:10
in whose hands is wickedness; their right hand is full of bribes.

Proverbs 15:27
He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.

Proverbs 17:8
A bribe is a precious stone in the eyes of him who gives it; wherever he turns, he prospers.

Proverbs 17:23
A wicked man receives a bribe in secret, to pervert the ways of justice.

Ecclesiastes 7:7
Surely extortion makes the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroys the understanding.

Isaiah 1:13
Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me. New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations— I can’t stand evil assemblies.

Isaiah 5:23
who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!

Ezekiel 22:12
In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Hosea 4:18
Their drink has become sour. They play the prostitute continually. Her rulers dearly love their shameful way.

Amos 5:12
For I know how many are your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts.

Micah 7:3
Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe. The powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

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Esther 3:2
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.

Esther 5:10
Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went home. There, he sent and called for his friends and Zeresh his wife.

Esther 5:11
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.

Proverbs 30:13
There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.

Ecclesiastes 4:4
Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

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Job 6:15
My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away;

Job 6:16
which are black by reason of the ice, in which the snow hides itself.

Job 6:17
In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

Job 6:18
The caravans that travel beside them turn away. They go up into the waste, and perish.

Job 6:19
The caravans of Tema looked. The companies of Sheba waited for them.

Job 6:20
They were distressed because they were confident. They came there, and were confounded.

Job 6:21
For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid.

Job 6:22
Did I ever say, ‘Give to me?’ or, ‘Offer a present for me from your substance?’

Job 6:23
or, ‘Deliver me from the adversary’s hand?’ or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?’

Job 19:15
Those who dwell in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.

Job 19:16
I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth.

Job 19:17
My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.

Psalms 38:11
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.

Psalms 88:18
You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.

2 Timothy 4:16
At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.

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

Psalms 88:8
You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.

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

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Proverbs 18:1
A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

Proverbs 19:5
A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.

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Proverbs 18:24
A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

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Proverbs 19:2
It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge, nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way.

Proverbs 19:3
The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against Yahweh.

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Luke 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.

Luke 15:14
When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.

Luke 15:15
He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

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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;

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

Proverbs 22:9
He who has a generous eye will be blessed, for he shares his food with the poor.

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

Proverbs 22:22
Don’t exploit the poor because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

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

Proverbs 28:15
As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.

Proverbs 29:7
The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.

Proverbs 29:14
The king who fairly judges the poor, his throne shall be established forever.

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.

Luke 14:13
But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;

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

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