Proverbs 14:20

WEB

²⁰The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, but the rich person has many friends.

KJV

²⁰The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.

BSB

²⁰The poor man is hated even by his neighbor, but many are those who love the rich.

FBV

²⁰The poor are hated even by their neighbors, while the rich have many friends.

Extra References

Proverbs 19:4

⁴Wealth adds many friends, but the poor is separated from his friend.

Proverbs 10:15

¹⁵The rich man’s wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

⁶Many will entreat the favor of a ruler, and everyone is a friend to a man who gives gifts. ⁷All the relatives of the poor shun him; how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.

Job 30:10

¹⁰They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don’t hesitate to spit in my face.

Job 19:13-14

¹³“He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me. ¹⁴My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.

Job 6:21-23

²¹For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid. ²²Did I ever say, ‘Give to me’? or, ‘Offer a present for me from your substance’? ²³or, ‘Deliver me from the adversary’s hand’? or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors’?

Esther 3:2

²All the king’s servants who were in the king’s gate bowed down and paid homage to Haman, for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai didn’t bow down or pay him homage.

Esther 5:10-11

¹⁰Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went home. There, he sent and called for his friends and Zeresh his wife. ¹¹Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.