PRO 19:4 Parallel View

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19:4 Note: We agree with both BHS 1997 and BHQ on an unexpected reading.

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ULT Wealth adds many companions,
 ⇔ but a lowly one is separated from his companions.

UST Wealthy people easily make many friends,
⇔ but poor people lose even the friends they have.

BSB  ⇔ Wealth attracts many friends,
⇔ but a poor man is deserted by his friend.

OEB Wealth adds many friends,
⇔ but the friend of the poor man withdraws.

WEB Wealth adds many friends,
⇔ but the poor is separated from his friend.

NET Wealth adds many friends,
 ⇔ but a poor person is separated from his friend.

LSV Wealth adds many friends,
And the poor is separated from his neighbor.

FBV If you're rich, you get a lot of friends, but if you're poor, you lose any friends you had.

T4T  ⇔ Those who are rich easily find people who want to be their friends,
⇔ but when people become poor, their friends often desert them.

LEB • but the poor will be left by his friends.

BBE Wealth makes a great number of friends; but the poor man is parted from his friend.

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JPS Wealth addeth many friends; but as for the poor, his friend separateth himself from him.

ASV Wealth addeth many friends;
 ⇔ But the poor is separated from his friend.

DRA Riches make many friends: but from the poor man, even they whom he had, depart.

YLT Wealth addeth many friends, And the poor from his neighbour is separated.

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

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

WBS Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbor.

KJB Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.

BB Riches maketh many frendes: but the poore is separated from his neighbour.
(Riches maketh many friends: but the poor is separated from his neighbour.)

GNV Riches gather many friends: but the poore is separated from his neighbour.
(Riches gather many friends: but the poor is separated from his neighbour. )

CB Riches make many frendes, but the poore is forsake of his owne frendes.
(Riches make many friends, but the poor is forsake of his own friends.)

WYC Richessis encreessen ful many freendis; forsothe also thei ben departid fro a pore man, whiche he hadde.
(Richessis encreessen full many friendis; forsothe also they been departed from a poor man, which he hadde.)

LUT Gut macht viel Freunde; aber der Arme wird von seinen Freunden verlassen.
(Gut macht many friends; but the Arme becomes from his friendsn verlassen.)

CLV Divitiæ addunt amicos plurimos; a paupere autem et hi quos habuit separantur.[fn]
(Divitiæ addunt amicos plurimos; a paupere however and hi which habuit separantur.)

19.4 Divitiæ addunt amicos. Divitiæ regni cœlestis, quæ per sanctos doctores fidelibus tribuendæ prædicantur, multos amicos et eisdem prædicatoribus, et earum largitori Deo asciscunt. A prophetis autem, quia nihil certæ beatitudinis promittunt, et hi quos habent separantur, conversi ad certissimam Dominicæ fidei promissionem.

19.4 Divitiæ addunt amicos. Divitiæ regni cœlestis, which per sanctos doctores fidelibus tribuendæ prædicantur, multos amicos and eisdem prædicatoribus, and earum largitori Deo asciscunt. A prophetis autem, because nihil certæ beatitudinis promittunt, and hi which habent separantur, conversi to certissimam Dominicæ of_faith promissionem.

BRN Wealth acquires many friends; but the poor is deserted even of the friend he has.

BrLXX Πλοῦτος προστίθησι φίλους πολλοὺς, ὁ δὲ πτωχὸς καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ ὑπάρχοντος φίλου λείπεται.
(Ploutos prostithaʸsi filous pollous, ho de ptōⱪos kai apo tou huparⱪontos filou leipetai. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

ה֗וֹן יֹ֭סִיף רֵעִ֣ים רַבִּ֑ים

wealth brings friends many

Here, Solomon implies that a person who is wealthy will have many companions because wealth attracts people. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state this explicitly. Alternate translation: “Wealth causes a person to have many friends”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / genericnoun

וְ֝⁠דָ֗ל מֵרֵ֥ע⁠הוּ

and,poor friend,his

Here, a lowly one and his refer to a type of person in general, not a specific lowly one. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use more natural expressions. Alternate translation: “but any lowly person … from that person’s companions”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

וְ֝⁠דָ֗ל

and,poor

See how you translated the same use of lowly in 10:15.

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

וְ֝⁠דָ֗ל & יִפָּרֵֽד

and,poor & it_divided

If your language does not use this passive form, you could express the idea in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. Alternate translation: “but poverty separates a lowly one”

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

מֵרֵ֥ע⁠הוּ יִפָּרֵֽד

friend,his it_divided

Solomon implies that a lowly one is separated from his friends because of his poverty. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state this explicitly. Alternate translation: “is separated from his friends because of his poverty”

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