Proverbs 14:20
No one likes poor people; even their friends/neighbors do not like them; rich people have many friends, but only while the rich people still have money.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.
In Context
Cross References
Esther 3:2Then the king commanded that all the other officials had to bow down in front of Haman to honor him when he walked by. But Mordecai refused to bow down to Haman.
Job 6:21Similarly, you friends have not helped me at all! You have seen that terrible things have happened to me, and you are afraid that God might do similar things to you.
Job 30:10They are disgusted with me, and they usually stay away from me, but when they see me, they are happy to spit in my face.
Proverbs 10:15The wealth that rich people have protects them like a city is protected by a strong wall around it [MET], but people who are poor suffer much because they have no one to help them.
Proverbs 19:6Many people try to persuade important people to do favors for them; everyone wants to be a friend of those who give gifts.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 14:20
19 The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous. That is, 1. The wicked are oftentimes impoverished and brought low, so that they are forced to beg, their wickedness having reduced them to straits; while good men, by the blessing of God, are enriched, and enabled to give, and do give, even to the evil; for where God grants life we must not deny a livelihood. 2. Sometimes God extorts, even from bad men, an acknowledgement of the excellency of God's people. The evil ought always to bow… Read the whole commentary →