Proverbs 19:4

In 11 translations

BSB

Wealth attracts many friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend.

KJV

Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.

WEB

Wealth adds many friends, but the poor is separated from his friend.

ASV

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

LSV

Wealth adds many friends, || And the poor is separated from his neighbor.

YLT

Wealth addeth many friends, And the poor from his neighbour is separated.

DBY

Wealth addeth many friends; but the poor is separated from his friend.

DRC

Riches make many friends: but from the poor man, even they whom he had, depart.

GNV

Riches gather many friends: but the poore is separated from his neighbour.

JPS

Wealth addeth many friends; but as for the poor, his friend separateth himself from him.

LXXE

Wealth acquires many friends; but the poor is deserted even of the friend he has.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC

ה֗וֹן יֹ֭סִיף רֵעִ֣ים רַבִּ֑ים וְ֝דָ֗ל מֵרֵ֥עהוּ יִפָּרֵֽד׃We agree with both BHS 1997 and BHQ on an unexpected reading.

LXX-Br

Πλοῦτος προστίθησι φίλους πολλοὺς, ὁ δὲ πτωχὸς καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ ὑπάρχοντος φίλου λείπεται.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Proverbs 14:20The poor man is hated even by his neighbor, but many are those who love the rich.
• Proverbs 19:6–7Many seek the favor of the prince, and everyone is a friend of the gift giver. All the brothers of a poor man hate him— how much more do his friends avoid him! He may pursue them with pleading, but they are nowhere to…
• Luke 15:13–15After a few days, the younger son got everything together and journeyed to a distant country, where he squandered his wealth in wild living. After he had spent all he had, a severe famine swept through that country,…
• Job 19:13–17He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me. My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me. My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight. I…
• Job 6:15–23But my brothers are as faithless as wadis, as seasonal streams that overflow, darkened because of the ice and the inflow of melting snow, but ceasing in the dry season and vanishing from their channels in the heat.…
• Proverbs 10:15The wealth of the rich man is his fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor.

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