Proverbs 19:4
Wealth adds many friends, but the poor is separated from his friend.
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- Proverbs 14:20 The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, but the rich person has many friends.
- Proverbs 19:6–7 Many will entreat the favor of a ruler, and everyone is a friend to a man who gives gifts. All 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 19:13–15 “He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me. My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me. Those who dwell in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.