²² He who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from LORD. ²³ A poor man uses entreaties, but a rich man answers roughly. ²⁴ He who makes many friends [does it] to his own destruction, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Cross References

James 2:3

and ye have regard for the man wearing the bright clothing, and say to him, Sit thou here well, and ye say to the poor man, Stand thou there, or sit here below my footstool,

Genesis 42:7

And Joseph saw his brothers, and he knew them, but made himself foreign to them, and spoke roughly with them. And he said to them. From where come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.

Genesis 42:30

The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.

Exodus 5:2

And Pharaoh said, Who is LORD, that I should hearken to his voice to let Israel go? I do not know LORD, and moreover I will not let Israel go.

Ruth 2:7

And she said, Let me glean, I pray you, and gather behind the reapers among the sheaves. So she came, and has continued even from the morning until now, except that she tarried a little in the house.

1 Samuel 2:36

And it shall come to pass, that everyone who is left in thy house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices that I may eat a morse

1 Samuel 25:10

And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? And who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants now-a-days who break away every man from his master.

1 Samuel 25:17

Now therefore know and consider what thou will do, for evil is determined against our master, and against all his house. For he is such a worthless fellow that [a man] cannot speak to him.

2 Kings 4:1-2

Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead, and thou know that thy servant feared LORD, and the creditor has come to take my two children to him to be bo

Isaiah 66:2

For all these things my hand has made, and all these things came to be, says LORD. But to this man I will look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

Matthew 5:3

Blessed are the poor in spirit, because the kingdom of the heavens is theirs.

James 1:9-11

Now let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation,

James 2:6

But ye have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich exploit you, and they themselves drag you into courts?