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Complete Jewish Bible

Proverbs 19:4

Wealth brings in many friends, but the poor man loses the one friend he has.

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

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.
King James Version
Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.
English Standard Version
Wealth brings many new friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend.
New American Standard Bible
Wealth adds many friends, But a poor person is separated from his friend.
New Century Version
Wealthy people are always finding more friends, but the poor lose all theirs.
Amplified Bible
Wealth makes many friends, But a poor man is separated from his friend.
World English Bible
Wealth adds many friends, But the poor is separated from his friend.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Riches gather many friends: but the poore is separated from his neighbour.
Legacy Standard Bible
Wealth adds many friends,But a poor man is separated from his friend.
Berean Standard Bible
Wealth attracts many friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend.
Contemporary English Version
The rich have many friends; the poor have none.
Darby Translation
Wealth addeth 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.
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.
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.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Riches make many frendes, but the poore is forsake of his owne frendes.
American Standard Version
Wealth addeth many friends; But the poor is separated from his friend.
Bible in Basic English
Wealth makes a great number of friends; but the poor man is parted from his friend.
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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Riches maketh many frendes: 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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Richessis encreessen ful many freendis; forsothe also thei ben departid fro a pore man, whiche he hadde.
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.
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.
New Revised Standard
Wealth brings many friends, but the poor are left friendless.
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.
Revised Standard Version
Wealth brings many new friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend.
Young's Literal Translation
Wealth addeth many friends, And the poor from his neighbour is separated.
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.

Contextual Overview

4 Wealth brings in many friends, but the poor man loses the one friend he has.

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 men of S'dom were evil, committing great sins against Adonai .
Genesis 18:20
Adonai said, "The outcry against S'dom and ‘Amora is so great and their sin so serious
Genesis 19:1
(iii) The two angels came to S'dom that evening, when Lot was sitting at the gate of S'dom. Lot saw them, got up to greet them and prostrated himself on the ground.
Genesis 19:6
Lot went out to them and stood in the doorway, closing the door behind him,
Genesis 19:20
Look, there's a town nearby to flee to, and it's a small one. Please let me escape there — isn't it just a small one? — and that way I will stay alive."
Genesis 19:25
He overthrew those cities, the entire plain, all the inhabitants of the cities and everything growing in the ground.
Exodus 16:2
There in the desert the whole community of the people of Isra'el grumbled against Moshe and Aharon.
Exodus 23:2
Do not follow the crowd when it does what is wrong; and don't allow the popular view to sway you into offering testimony for any cause if the effect will be to pervert justice.
Proverbs 4:16
For they can't sleep if they haven't done evil, they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone fall.
Proverbs 6:18
a heart that plots wicked schemes, feet swift in running 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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