²² Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of the LORD. ²³ The poor plead for mercy, but the rich answer harshly. ²⁴ A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Cross References

James 2:3

and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing, and say, "Sit here in a good place;" but you tell the poor man, "Stand there," or "Sit by my footstool;"

Genesis 42:7

Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, "Where did you come from?" 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

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

Ruth 2:7

She said, 'Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves.' So she came, and has continued even from the morning until now, except that she stayed a little in the house."

1 Samuel 2:36

It shall happen, that everyone who is left in your house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and shall say, "Please put me into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread."'"

1 Samuel 25:10

Nabal answered David's servants, and said, "Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants who break away from their masters these days.

1 Samuel 25:17

Now therefore know and consider what you will do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his house; for he is such a worthless fellow that one can't speak to him."

2 Kings 4:1-2

Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared the LORD. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves."

Isaiah 66:2

For all these things has my hand made, and so all these things came to be," says the LORD: "but to this man will I 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, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

James 1:9-11

But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;

James 2:6

But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?