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Proverbs 14:20
The poor are shunned even by their neighbors, but the rich have many friends.
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Proverbs 19:6-7
Many curry favor with a ruler, and everyone is the friend of one who gives gifts.The poor are shunned by all their relatives— how much more do their friends avoid them! Though the poor pursue them with pleading, they are nowhere to be found.
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Luke 15:13-15
“ Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living.After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need.So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.
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Proverbs 10:15
The wealth of the rich is their fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor.
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Job 19:13-17
“ He has alienated my family from me; my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.My relatives have gone away; my closest friends have forgotten me.My guests and my female servants count me a foreigner; they look on me as on a stranger.I summon my servant, but he does not answer, though I beg him with my own mouth.My breath is offensive to my wife; I am loathsome to my own family.
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Job 6:15-23
But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams, as the streams that overflowwhen darkened by thawing ice and swollen with melting snow,but that stop flowing in the dry season, and in the heat vanish from their channels.Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go off into the wasteland and perish.The caravans of Tema look for water, the traveling merchants of Sheba look in hope.They are distressed, because they had been confident; they arrive there, only to be disappointed.Now you too have proved to be of no help; you see something dreadful and are afraid.Have I ever said,‘ Give something on my behalf, pay a ransom for me from your wealth,deliver me from the hand of the enemy, rescue me from the clutches of the ruthless’?
