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New Century Version

Proverbs 19:4

Wealthy people are always finding more friends, but the poor lose all theirs.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Flattery;   Poor;   Riches;   The Topic Concordance - Poverty;   Wealth;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Poetry;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Friend, Friendship;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Friend, Friendship;   Proverbs, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
Wealth brings many new friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Riches gather many friends: but the poore is separated from his neighbour.
Christian Standard Bible®
Wealth attracts many friends,but a poor person is separated from his friend.
Hebrew Names Version
Wealth adds many friends, But the poor is separated from his friend.
Easy-to-Read Version
Wealth will bring you many friends, but become poor and your friends will leave you.
Amplified Bible
Wealth makes many friends, But a poor man is separated from his friend.
American Standard Version
Wealth addeth many friends; But the poor is separated from his friend.
Contemporary English Version
The rich have many friends; the poor have none.
Complete Jewish Bible
Wealth brings in many friends, but the poor man loses the one friend he has.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Wealth addeth many friends; but as for the poor, his friend separateth himself from him.
King James Version (1611)
Wealth maketh many friends: but the poore is separated from his neighbour.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Wealth acquires many friends; but the poor is deserted even of the friend he has.
English Revised Version
Wealth addeth many friends: but the poor is separated from his friend.
Berean Standard Bible
Wealth attracts many friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend.
Lexham English Bible
Wealth adds many friends, but the poor will be left by his friends.
Literal Translation
Wealth makes many friends, but the poor is separated from his neighbor.
New English Translation
Wealth adds many friends, but a poor person is separated from his friend.
New King James Version
Wealth makes many friends, But the poor is separated from his friend.
New Living Translation
Wealth makes many "friends"; poverty drives them all away.
New Life Bible
Riches add many friends, but a poor man is separated from his friend.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Wealth, addeth many friends, but, the poor man, from his own friend, is parted.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Riches make many friends: but from the poor man, even they whom he had, depart.
George Lamsa Translation
Wealth makes many friends; but a poor man is deserted by his friends.
Good News Translation
Rich people are always finding new friends, but the poor cannot keep the few they have.
New American Standard Bible
Wealth adds many friends, But a poor person is separated from his friend.
King James Version
Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Riches maketh many frendes: but the poore is separated from his neighbour.
New Revised Standard
Wealth brings many friends, but the poor are left friendless.
Darby Translation
Wealth addeth many friends; but the poor is separated from his friend.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Richessis encreessen ful many freendis; forsothe also thei ben departid fro a pore man, whiche he hadde.
Young's Literal Translation
Wealth addeth many friends, And the poor from his neighbour is separated.
World English Bible
Wealth adds many friends, But the poor is separated from his friend.
Revised Standard Version
Wealth brings many new friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend.
Update Bible Version
Wealth adds many friends; But the poor is separated from his friend.
Webster's Bible Translation
Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbor.
Bible in Basic English
Wealth makes a great number of friends; but the poor man is parted from his friend.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Riches make many frendes, but the poore is forsake of his owne frendes.
THE MESSAGE
Wealth attracts friends as honey draws flies, but poor people are avoided like a plague.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Wealth adds many friends, But a poor man is separated from his friend.
Legacy Standard Bible
Wealth adds many friends,But a poor man is separated from his friend.

Contextual Overview

4 Wealthy people are always finding more friends, but the poor lose all theirs.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

maketh: Proverbs 19:6, Proverbs 19:7, Proverbs 14:20, Luke 15:13-15

the poor: Proverbs 10:15, Job 6:15-23, Job 19:13-17

Reciprocal: Genesis 14:17 - to Exodus 23:8 - thou shalt take

Cross-References

Genesis 13:13
Now the people of Sodom were very evil and were always sinning against the Lord .
Genesis 18:20
Then the Lord said, "I have heard many complaints against the people of Sodom and Gomorrah. They are very evil.
Genesis 19:1
The two angels came to Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting near the city gate. When he saw them, he got up and went to them and bowed facedown on the ground.
Genesis 19:6
Lot went outside to them, closing the door behind him.
Genesis 19:20
Look, that little town over there is not too far away. Let me run there. It's really just a little town, and I'll be safe there."
Genesis 19:25
and destroyed those cities. He also destroyed the whole Jordan Valley, everyone living in the cities, and even all the plants.
Exodus 16:2
Then the whole Israelite community grumbled to Moses and Aaron in the desert.
Exodus 23:2
"You must not do wrong just because everyone else is doing it. If you are a witness in court, you must not ruin a fair trial. You must not tell lies just because everyone else is.
Proverbs 4:16
because they cannot sleep until they do evil. They cannot rest until they harm someone.
Proverbs 6:18
a mind that thinks up evil plans, feet that are quick to do evil,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wealth maketh many friends,.... Or "adds" f; it increases the number of them: so the poet g, "donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos"; and to this agrees what the wise man says,

Proverbs 14:20;

but the poor is separated from his neighbour; or "friend" h; he will not visit him as he did in his prosperity, nor suffer him to come into his house or company, or come near him; he is separated from his affection, friendship, and presence: so another poet i,

"if thou art rich, thou wilt have many friends; but, if poor, few.''

f יסיף. "addit", Junius Tremellius, Piscator. g Ovid. h מרעהו "ab amico sua", Pagninus, Montanus, Baynus, Junius & Tremeliius, Piscator, Michaelis "a sodali sua", Schultens. i Theognis.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 19:4. The poor is separated from his neighbour. — Because he has the "disease of all-shunned poverty."


 
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