²⁰ The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, But the rich person has many friends.

⁴ Wealth adds many friends, But the poor is separated from his friend.

² All the king's servants, who were in the king's gate, bowed down, and did reverence to Haman; for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai didn't bow down, nor did him reverence.

¹⁰ Nevertheless Haman refrained himself, and went home; and he sent and fetched his friends and Zeresh his wife.

¹¹ Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

²¹ For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid.

²² Did I say, 'Give to me?' Or, 'Offer a present for me from your substance?'

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

¹³ "He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

¹⁴ My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.

¹⁰ They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, And don't hesitate to spit in my face.

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

⁶ Many will entreat the favor of a ruler, And everyone is a friend to a man who gives gifts.

⁷ All the relatives of the poor shun him: How much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.