Proverbs 19:7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

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?