Proverbs 19:7 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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 Moreover, even his friends have withdrawn far from him.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.

Proverbs 19:7 Cross References

Proverbs 19:4

Wealth addeth many friends: But the poor is separated from his friend.

Proverbs 21:13

Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, He also shall cry, but shall not be heard.

Proverbs 18:23

The poor useth entreaties: But the rich answereth roughly.

Psalm 38:11

My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague; And my kinsmen stand afar off.

James 2:6

But ye have dishonoured the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and themselves drag you before the judgement-seats?

Proverbs 14:20

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

Psalm 88:18

Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, And mine acquaintance into darkness.

Psalm 88:8

Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me; Thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

Proverbs 10:15

The rich man's wealth is his strong city: The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

Psalm 38:12

They also that seek after my life lay snares for me; And they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, And imagine deceits all the day long.

Proverbs 27:10

Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; And go not to thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: Better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.