THEOSISProverbs 19:4Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Riches make many friends: but from the poor man, even they whom he had, depart.
ה֗וֹן יֹ֭סִיף רֵעִ֣ים רַבִּ֑ים וְ֝דָ֗ל מֵרֵ֥עהוּ יִפָּרֵֽד׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 14:20The poor man shall be hateful even to his own neighbour: but the friends of the rich are many.
- Luke 15:13And not many days after, the younger son, gathering all together, went abroad into a far country: and there wasted his substance, living riotously.
- Luke 15:15And he went and cleaved to one of the citizens of that country. And he sent him into his farm to feed swine.
- Prov 19:6Many honour the person of him that is mighty, and are friends of him that giveth gifts.
- Prov 19:7The brethren of the poor man hate him: moreover also his friends have departed far from him. He that followeth after words only, shall have nothing.
- Job 6:15My brethren have passed by me, as the torrent that passeth swiftly in the valleys.
- Job 6:23Or deliver me from the hand of the enemy, and rescue me out of the hand of the mighty?
- Job 19:13He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me.