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Proverbs 14:20

The poor man shall be hateful even to his own neighbour: but the friends of the rich are many.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): Etiam proximo suo pauper odiosus erit : amici vero divitum multi.
Septuagint (Swete): φίλοι μισήσουσιν φίλους πτωχούς, φίλοι δὲ πλουσίων πολλοί.
Hebrew (WLC): גַּם לְ֭רֵעֵהוּ יִשָּׂ֣נֵא רָ֑שׁ וְאֹהֲבֵ֖י עָשִׁ֣יר רַבִּֽים

Haydock's commentary

Many. "Riches make friends, poverty tries them." (Syrus.)

False friends resemble swallows, which retire at the approach of winter. (Cicero, ad Heren. iv.)

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.