Proverbs 14:20
20 aThe poor is disliked even by his neighbor,bbut the rich has many friends.
Proverbs 19:6-7
6Many seek the favor of a generous man, ▼▼Or of a noble
and everyone is a friend to a man who gives dgifts.
7 eAll a poor man’s brothers hate him;
fhow much more do his friends go far from him!
He pursues them with words, but does not have them. ▼
▼The meaning of the Hebrew sentence is uncertain
Luke 15:13-15
13Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in hreckless living. 14And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need. 15So he went and hired himself out to ▼▼Greek joined himself to
one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
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