Proverbs 19:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ If the poor are hated even by their kin, how much more are they shunned by their friends! When they call after them, they are not there.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ All the brethren of the poor do hate him: How much more do his friends go far from him? He pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ All the brothers of a poor man detest him–how much more do his friends go far from him! He pursues them with words, but they are gone.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ All the brethren of the poor do hate him: How much more do his friends go far from him! He pursueth them with words, but they are gone.

Common English Bible

⁷ All the relatives of the poor hate them; even more, their friends stay far from them. When they pursue them with words, they aren’t there.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ The brothers of the poor man hate him. Moreover, even his friends have withdrawn far from him. Whoever pursues only words shall have nothing.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ The brethren of the poor man hate him: moreover also his friends have departed far from him. He that followeth after words only, shall have nothing.

Proverbs 19:7 Cross References

Psalm 38:11

My friends and companions stand aloof from my affliction, and my neighbors stand far off.

Psalm 38:12

Those who seek my life lay their snares; those who seek to hurt me speak of ruin and meditate on treachery all day long.

Psalm 88:18

You have caused friend and neighbor to shun me; my companions are in darkness.

Psalm 88:8

You have caused my companions to shun me; you have made me a thing of horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape;

Proverbs 10:15

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

Proverbs 14:20

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

Proverbs 18:23

The poor use entreaties, but the rich answer roughly.

Proverbs 19:4

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

Proverbs 21:13

If you close your ear to the cry of the poor, you will cry out and not be heard.

Proverbs 27:10

Do not forsake your friend or the friend of your parent; do not go to the house of your kindred in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is nearby than kindred who are far away.

James 2:6

But you have dishonored the poor person. Is it not the rich who oppress you? Is it not they who drag you into the courts?