“All the relatives of the poor shun him; how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Proverbs 19 contains 29 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.