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Proverbs 19

Prov. 19:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Wealth
hown (Hebrew #1952)
wealth; by implication, enough
KJV usage: enough, + for nought, riches, substance, wealth.
Pronounce: hone
Origin: from the same as 1951 in the sense of 202
maketh
yacaph (Hebrew #3254)
to add or augment (often adverbial, to continue to do a thing)
KJV usage: add, X again, X any more, X cease, X come more, + conceive again, continue, exceed, X further, X gather together, get more, give more-over, X henceforth, increase (more and more), join, X longer (bring, do, make, much, put), X (the, much, yet) more (and more), proceed (further), prolong, put, be (strong-) er, X yet, yield.
Pronounce: yaw-saf'
Origin: a primitive root
many
rab (Hebrew #7227)
abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
KJV usage: (in) abound(-undance, -ant, -antly), captain, elder, enough, exceedingly, full, great(-ly, man, one), increase, long (enough, (time)), (do, have) many(-ifold, things, a time), ((ship-))master, mighty, more, (too, very) much, multiply(-tude), officer, often(-times), plenteous, populous, prince, process (of time), suffice(-lent).
Pronounce: rab
Origin: by contracted from 7231
friends
rea` (Hebrew #7453)
from 7462; an associate (more or less close)
KJV usage: brother, companion, fellow, friend, husband, lover, neighbour, X (an-)other.
Pronounce: ray'-ah
Origin: or reya2 {ray'-ah}
; but the poor
dal (Hebrew #1800)
properly, dangling, i.e. (by implication) weak or thin
KJV usage: lean, needy, poor (man), weaker.
Pronounce: dal
Origin: from 1809
is separated
parad (Hebrew #6504)
to break through, i.e. spread or separate (oneself)
KJV usage: disperse, divide, be out of joint, part, scatter (abroad), separate (self), sever self, stretch, sunder.
Pronounce: paw-rad'
Origin: a primitive root
from his neighbor
rea` (Hebrew #7453)
from 7462; an associate (more or less close)
KJV usage: brother, companion, fellow, friend, husband, lover, neighbour, X (an-)other.
Pronounce: ray'-ah
Origin: or reya2 {ray'-ah}
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Ministry on This Verse

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maketh.
Prov. 19:6‑7• 6Many will entreat the favor of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.
 7All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him. (Prov. 19:6‑7)
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Prov. 14:20• 20The poor is hated even of his own neighbor: but the rich hath many friends. (Prov. 14:20)
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Luke 15:13‑15• 13And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
 14And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
 15And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. (Luke 15:13‑15)
the poor.
Prov. 10:15• 15The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty. (Prov. 10:15)
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Job 6:15‑23• 15My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
 16Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
 17What time they wax warm, they {/kn}vanish: when it is hot, they are {kn 13714}consumed out of their place.
 18The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
 19The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
 20They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
 21For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.
 22Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?
 23Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty? (Job 6:15‑23)
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Job 19:13‑17• 13He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
 14My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
 15They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
 16I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I entreated him with my mouth.
 17My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the children's sake of mine own body. (Job 19:13‑17)
• The well-to-do will always have many to claim friendship with him; while the indigent will often find his poverty a means of separating his neighbors from him; for, though a glamor may be thrown about it by the easily-satisfied optimist, this is a cold, feeling-less world after all. (“Proverbs Nineteen” by H.A. Ironside)
• Notice verses 6, 7, and 17. The just man will not regard the rich more than the poor. See Job 34:19, and James 2:1-9. (“Proverbs Nineteen” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Wealth addeth many friends; but the poor is separated from his friend.