OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 14:20

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The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, but the rich person has many friends.

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Verse 20. Many. “Riches make friends, poverty tries them.” Syrus.—False friends resemble swallows, which retire at the approach of winter. Cic. ad Heren. iv.

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