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

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

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.

¹³ Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.

¹⁴ When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.

¹⁵ He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

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

¹⁶ Which are black by reason of the ice, in which the snow hides itself:

¹⁷ In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

¹⁸ The caravans that travel beside 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 distressed because they were confident; They came there, and were confounded.

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.

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

¹⁶ I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer; I beg him with my mouth.

¹⁷ My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.

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