Proverbs 18:23

21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

22 Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.

The poor useth intreaties; but the rich answereth roughly.

24 A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

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Sammenlign

ÅB
I ydmyke bønner taler den fattige, men den rike svarer med hårde ord.
OTB
De fattige ber om nåde, men de rike svarer hardt.
B1930
I ydmyke bønner taler den fattige, men den rike svarer med hårde ord.
BSB
The poor man pleads for mercy, but the rich man answers harshly.
KJV
The poor useth intreaties; but the rich answereth roughly.
WEB
The poor plead for mercy, but the rich answer harshly.
ASV
The poor useth entreaties; But the rich answereth roughly.
DARBY
He that is poor speaketh with supplications, but the rich answereth roughly.
BLB
[With] supplications the poor one speaks, and a rich one answers fiercely.

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    Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:

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  • Exodus 5:2

    And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.

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  • James 2:6

    But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?

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  • 1 Samuel 25:17

    Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to him.

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  • Isaiah 66:2

    For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

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  • 2 Kings 4:1–2

    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 the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.

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  • Genesis 42:7

    And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.

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