Proverbs 19:7

The Message

When you’re down on your luck, even your family avoids you— yes, even your best friends wish you’d get lost. If they see you coming, they look the other way— out of sight, out of mind.

Cross References

Proverbs 10:15

The wealth of the rich is their security; the poverty of the indigent is their ruin.

Proverbs 14:20

An unlucky loser is shunned by all, but everyone loves a winner.

Proverbs 18:23

The poor speak in soft supplications; the rich bark out answers.

Proverbs 19:4

Wealth attracts friends as honey draws flies, but poor people are avoided like a plague.

Proverbs 21:13

If you stop your ears to the cries of the poor, your cries will go unheard, unanswered.

Proverbs 27:10

Don’t leave your friends or your parents’ friends and run home to your family when things get rough; Better a nearby friend than a distant family.