the Week of Proper 24 / Ordinary 29
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Proverbs 14:20
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The poor are despised even by their neighbors, while the rich have many "friends."
The poor is hated even of his own neighbor; But the rich has many friends.
The poor are rejected, even by their neighbors, but the rich have many friends.
A poor person is disliked even by his neighbors, but those who love the rich are many.
The poor is hated even by his own neighbor: but the rich [hath] many friends.
The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, But the rich person has many friends.
The poor man is hated even by his neighbor, But those who love the rich are many.
The poor is disliked even by his neighbor, but the rich has many friends.
A pore man schal be hateful, yhe, to his neiybore; but many men ben frendis of riche men.
The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.
The poor man is hated even by his neighbor, but many are those who love the rich.
You have no friends if you are poor, but you have lots of friends if you are rich.
The poor is hated even of his own neighbor; But the rich hath many friends.
The poor man is hated even by his neighbour, but the man of wealth has numbers of friends.
The poor are disliked even by their peers, but the rich have many friends.
He that is poor is hated even of his own neighbour; but the rich hath many friends.
The poor have no friends, not even their neighbors, but the rich have many friends.
The poor is hated even of his own neighbour; but the rich hath many friends.
The poore is hated euen of his owne neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.
The poor man is hated even by his neighbor, but the rich man has many friends.
The poor are disliked even by their neighbors, but the rich have many friends.
The poore is hated euen of his own neighbour: but the friendes of the rich are many.
The poor is hated even of his own neighbors; but the rich has many friends.
No one likes the poor, not even their neighbors, but the rich have many friends.
Even by his neighbour, is poor man hated, but, the lovers of the rich man, are many.
The poor man shall be hateful even to his own neighbour: but the friends of the rich are many.
The poor is disliked even by his neighbor, but the rich has many friends.
The poore is hated euen of his owne neyghbours: but the riche hath many frendes.
Friends will hate poor friends; but the friends of the rich are many.
A poor person is hated even by his neighbor,but there are many who love the rich.
The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, But the rich person has many friends.
The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.
The poor is disliked even by his neighbor, but the lovers of the rich are many.
The poor is hated even by his own neighbor, but the rich has many friends.
Even of his neighbour is the poor hated, And those loving the rich [are] many.
The poore is hated euen of his owne neghbours, but the riche hath many frendes.
An unlucky loser is shunned by all, but everyone loves a winner.
The poor is hated even by his neighbor, But those who love the rich are many.
The poor is hated even by his neighbor, But those who love the rich are many.
The poor is hated even by his neighbor,But those who love the rich are many.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
poor: Proverbs 10:15, Proverbs 19:7, Job 6:21-23, Job 19:13, Job 19:14, Job 30:10
but: Proverbs 19:4, Proverbs 19:6, Esther 3:2, Esther 5:10, Esther 5:11
the rich hath many friends: Heb. many are the lovers of the rich.
Reciprocal: Genesis 14:17 - to Leviticus 25:35 - thy brother 1 Samuel 18:23 - a poor man Ecclesiastes 7:12 - wisdom Luke 14:12 - when
Cross-References
And he said: "Blessed be the LORD, The God of Shem, And may Canaan be his servant.
All these joined together in the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).
Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him came and attacked the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
and the Horites in their mountain of Seir, as far as El Paran, which is by the wilderness.
against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of nations, [fn] Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar--four kings against five.
And the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley), after his return from the defeat of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him.
And he blessed him and said: "Blessed be Abram of God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth;
And he said, "Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken His mercy and His truth toward my master. As for me, being on the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master's brethren."
And this stone which I have set as a pillar shall be God's house, and of all that You give me I will surely give a tenth to You."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The poor is hated even of his own neighbour,.... As well as of strangers; that is, he is shy of him; he does not care to take any notice of him, or be friendly with him, lest he should be burdensome to him. Poverty brings a man into contempt and disgrace; the same man, in affluence and indigence, is respected or disrespected: this is true, as Gersom observes, of a man that is poor, whether in money or in knowledge, in his purse or in his understanding;
but the rich [hath] many friends; or, "many [are] the lovers of the rich" r: for the sake of their riches; either for the sake of honour or profit, or because the rich want nothing of them, or because they themselves may gain something by them: this also is observed by the above Jewish commentator to be true of the rich in substance or in wisdom; but the former sense is best; for a wise man, if poor in the world, is but little regarded.
r ואהבי עשיר רבים "et amatores divitiis spissi", Schultens; "dilectores autem divitis multi sunt", Piscator. "Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos", Ovid. Trist. Eleg. 8. "Dat census honores, census amicitias", ib. Fasti, l. 1. so Phocylides, v. 925, 926.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The maxim, jarring as it is, represents the generalization of a wide experience; but the words which follow Proverbs 14:21 show that it is not to be taken by itself. In spite of all the selfish morality of mere prudence, the hearer is warned that to despise his “neighbor” (Christians must take the word in all the width given to it by the parable of the Good Samaritan) is to sin. The fullness of blessing comes on him who sees in the poor the objects of his mercy.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 14:20. But the rich hath many friends. — Many who speak to him the language of friendship; but if they profess friendship because he is rich, there is not one real friend among them. There is a fine saying of Cicero on this subject: Ut hirundines festivo tempore praesto sunt, frigore pulsae recedunt: ita falsi amici sereno tempore praesto sunt: simul atque fortunae hiemem viderint, evolant omnes. - Lib. iv., ad Herenn. "They are like swallows, who fly off during the winter, and quit our cold climates; and do not return till the warm season: but as soon as the winter sets in, they are all off again." So Horace: -
Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos:
Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.
"As long as thou art prosperous, thou shalt have many friends: but who of them will regard thee when thou hast lost thy wealth?"
