Proverbs 14:20 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁰ The poor is disliked even by his neighbor, but the rich has 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 new friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend.

Proverbs 10:15

A rich man's wealth is his strong city; 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 came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house; and 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 ring of gold.