Good News TranslationRich people are always finding new friends, but the poor cannot keep the few they have.
New Revised Standard Version
Wealth brings many friends, but the poor are left friendless.
Contemporary English Version
The rich have many friends; the poor have none.
New American Bible
Wealth adds many friends, but the poor are left friendless.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Riches make many friends: but from the poor man, even they whom he had, depart.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Riches make many friends: but from the poor man, even they whom he had, depart.
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Proverbs 19:6,7 Many honour the person of him that is mighty, and are friends of him that giveth gifts. . . .
Proverbs 14:20 The poor man shall be hateful even to his own neighbour: but the friends of the rich are many.
Luke 15:13-15 And not many days after, the younger son, gathering all together, went abroad into a far country: and there wasted his substance, living riotously. . . .
the poor
Proverbs 10:15 The work of the just is unto life: but the fruit of the wicked unto sin.
Job 6:15-23 My brethren have passed by me, as the torrent that passeth swiftly in the valleys. . . .
Job 19:13-17 He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me. . . .
