Devine Scripture

Proverbs 18:23

Proverbs chapter 18 · verse 23 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

The poor useth entreaties; But the rich answereth roughly.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

The poor useth intreaties; but the rich answereth roughly.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

The poor useth entreaties; But the rich answereth roughly.

Context

v.22Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.

v.23This passage

v.24He that maketh many friends doeth it to his own destruction; But there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Matthew 5:3

    Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

  • Ruth 2:7

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

  • 2 Kings 4:1

    Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear Jehovah: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two children to be bondmen.

  • Genesis 42:30

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

  • 1 Samuel 2:36

    And it shall come to pass, that every one that 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 morsel of bread.

  • Isaiah 66:2

    For all these things hath my hand made, and so all these things came to be, saith Jehovah: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and that trembleth at my word.