THEOSISProverbs 19:7Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
The 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.
כָּ֥ל אֲחֵי־רָ֨שׁ ׀ שְֽׂנֵאֻ֗הוּ אַ֤ף כִּ֣י מְ֭רֵעֵהוּ רָחֲק֣וּ מִמֶּ֑נּוּ מְרַדֵּ֖ף אֲמָרִ֣ים לא־לוֹ־הֵֽמָּה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 19:4Riches make many friends: but from the poor man, even they whom he had, depart.
- 1 John 3:17He that hath the substance of this world and shall see his brother in need and shall shut up his bowels from him: how doth the charity of God abide in him?
- 1 John 3:18My little children, let us not love in word nor in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
- Prov 18:23The poor will speak with supplications, and the rich will speak roughly.
- Jas 2:15And if a brother or sister be naked and want daily food:
- Jas 2:16And one of you say to them: Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; yet give them not those things that are necessary for the body, what shall it profit?
- Ps 38 (37):11
- Prov 21:13He that stoppeth his ear against the cry of the poor, shall also cry himself, and shall not be heard.