Proverbs 19:4 Cross References - CLV

⁴ Wealth adds many associates, Yet the poor man is parted from his associate."

¹⁵ My brothers, they are treacherous like a watercourse, Like a channel of watercourses that overflow, ¹⁶ That become somber because of ice, And snow obscures them. ¹⁷ In the season when they thaw they are effaced; When it is warm they are extinguished from their place. ¹⁸ Caravans are sent aside from their way; They ascend into the wasteland and perish. ¹⁹ The caravans of Tema look for waters; The wayfarers of Sheba expect to find them. ²⁰ But they are ashamed that each one trusted the place; They come to it, and they are abashed. ²¹ Thus have you now become to me; You see dismay, and you are fearful. ²² Indeed have I said, Grant something to me? Or, Pay a bribe from your fortune in my behalf? ²³ Or, Make my escape from the hand of the foe? Or, You shall ransom me from the hand of terrifiers?

¹³ He has put my brothers far from me, And my acquaintances have surely estranged themselves from me. ¹⁴ My near kinsmen have shunned me, And my acquaintances have forgotten me. ¹⁵ The sojourners in my house and my maidservants reckon me as an alien; I have become a foreigner in their eyes. ¹⁶ I call to my servant, yet he does not answer; With my mouth I supplicate to him. ¹⁷ My scent has become alien to my wife, And my supplicating foreign to the sons of my belly.

¹⁵ The wealth of a rich man is his strong town; Their destitution is the dismay of the poor.

²⁰ The destitute one is hated even by his associate, And those in friendship with the rich man are many;"

⁶ Many beseech a patron to his face, And everyone is the associate of a man with gifts." ⁷ All the brothers of a destitute man hate him; How much more do his associates keep far from him. He who pursues sayings finds they do not avail.

¹³ And, after not many days, gathering all together, the younger son travels into a far country and there dissipates his estate, living profligately." ¹⁴ Now, he spending all, a severe famine occurred in that country, and he begins to be in want." ¹⁵ And, going, he was joined to one of the citizens of that country, and he sends him into his fields to graze hogs."