Proverbs 14:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ The poor are disliked even by their neighbors, but the rich have many friends.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ The poor is hated even of his own neighbor; But the rich hath many friends.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Even their neighbors hate the poor, but many love the wealthy.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ The pauper will be hated, even by his own neighbor. Yet truly, the friends of the wealthy are many.

Proverbs 14:20 Cross References

Proverbs 19:4

Wealth brings many friends, but the poor are left friendless.

Proverbs 10:15

The wealth of the rich is their fortress; the poverty of the poor is their ruin.

Job 30:10

They abhor me; they keep aloof from me; they do not hesitate to spit at the sight of me.

Esther 3:2

And all the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate bowed down and did obeisance to Haman, for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai did not bow down or do obeisance.

Job 42:11

Then there came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they ate bread with him in his house; they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him; and each of them gave him a piece of money and a gold ring.