⁴ Wealth addeth many friends; But the poor is separated from his friend.

²⁰ The poor is hated even of his own neighbor; But the rich hath many friends.

⁶ Many will entreat the favor of the liberal man; And every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.

⁷ All the brethren of the poor do hate him: How much more do his friends go far from him! He pursueth `them with' words, `but' they are gone.

¹³ And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together and took his journey into a far country; and there he wasted his substance with riotous living.

¹⁴ And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that country; and he began to be in want.

¹⁵ And he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

¹⁵ My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of brooks that pass away;

¹⁶ Which are black by reason of the ice, `And' wherein the snow hideth itself:

¹⁷ What time they wax warm, they vanish; When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

¹⁸ The caravans `that travel' by the way of them turn aside; They go up into the waste, and perish.

¹⁹ The caravans of Tema looked, The companies of Sheba waited for them.

²⁰ They were put to shame because they had hoped; They came thither, and were confounded.

²¹ For now ye are nothing; Ye see a terror, and are afraid.

²² Did I say, Give unto me? Or, Offer a present for me of your substance?

²³ Or, Deliver me from the adversary's hand? Or, Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?

¹³ He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.

¹⁴ My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me.

¹⁵ They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.

¹⁶ I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer, `Though' I entreat him with my mouth.

¹⁷ My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the children of mine own mother.

¹⁵ The rich man's wealth is his strong city: The destruction of the poor is their poverty.