财物使朋友增多；但穷人朋友远离。

财富使朋友增多；贫寒人连仅有的朋友也离弃他。

财富使朋友增多；贫寒人连仅有的朋友也离弃他。

财富招来许多朋友，穷人却遭朋友抛弃。

财富使朋友增多，但穷人连他的一个朋友也与他分离。

财物能使朋友增多，贫弱者却遭伙伴远离。

財物使朋友增多；但窮人朋友遠離。

財富使朋友增多；貧寒人連僅有的朋友也離棄他。

財富使朋友增多；貧寒人連僅有的朋友也離棄他。

財富招來許多朋友，窮人卻遭朋友拋棄。

財富使朋友增多，但窮人連他的一個朋友也與他分離。

財物使朋友增多；但窮困人、連個朋友都跟他分離。

財物能使朋友增多，貧弱者卻遭夥伴遠離。

富厚則友朋增、貧窮則故舊絕、

富厚則交道廣、貧乏則鄰里絶。

人富厚則朋友增多、一貧乏則密友相離、

Wealth attracts many friends, but even the closest friend of the poor person deserts them.

Wealth brings many friends. But even the closest friend of a poor person abandons them.

Wealth brings many new friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend.

Wealth makes many“ friends”; poverty drives them all away.

Wealth attracts many friends, but a poor person is separated from his friend.

Wealth adds many friends, But a poor person is separated from his friend.

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

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

Wealth attracts many friends, but a poor man is separated from his friend.

Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.

Wealth adds many friends, but a poor person is separated from his friend.

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

The poor are shunned even by their neighbors, but the rich have many friends. (niv)

Many curry favor with a ruler, and everyone is the friend of one who gives gifts.The poor are shunned by all their relatives— how much more do their friends avoid them! Though the poor pursue them with pleading, they are nowhere to be found. (niv)

“ Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living.After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need.So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. (niv)

The wealth of the rich is their fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor. (niv)

“ He has alienated my family from me; my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.My relatives have gone away; my closest friends have forgotten me.My guests and my female servants count me a foreigner; they look on me as on a stranger.I summon my servant, but he does not answer, though I beg him with my own mouth.My breath is offensive to my wife; I am loathsome to my own family. (niv)

But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams, as the streams that overflowwhen darkened by thawing ice and swollen with melting snow,but that stop flowing in the dry season, and in the heat vanish from their channels.Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go off into the wasteland and perish.The caravans of Tema look for water, the traveling merchants of Sheba look in hope.They are distressed, because they had been confident; they arrive there, only to be disappointed.Now you too have proved to be of no help; you see something dreadful and are afraid.Have I ever said,‘ Give something on my behalf, pay a ransom for me from your wealth,deliver me from the hand of the enemy, rescue me from the clutches of the ruthless’? (niv)