All the brothers of a poor man hate him, how much more do his friends go far from him! He pursues [with] words, [but] they are gone.
Wealth adds many friends, but a poor man is separated from his friend.
He who stops his ears at the cry of a poor man, he also shall cry, but shall not be heard.
A poor man uses entreaties, but a rich man answers roughly.
Those I love and my friends stand aloof from my plague, and my kinsmen stand afar off.
But ye have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich exploit you, and they themselves drag you into courts?
The poor man is hated even by his own neighbor, but the rich man has many friends.
Thou have put beloved and friend far from me, and my acquaintances into darkness.
Thou have put my acquaintances far from me. Thou have made me an abomination to them. I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
The rich man's wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
Those also who seek after my life lay snares [for me]. And those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all the day long.
Forsake not thine own friend, and thy father's friend. And go not to thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity. Better is a neighbor nearby than a brother far off.